How To Install xtables-addons-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xtables-addons-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xtables-addons-common
xtables-addons-common is:
Xtables-addons provides extra modules for iptables not present in the kernel, and is the successor of patch-o-matic. Extensions includes new targets like TEE, TARPIT, CHAOS, or modules like geoip and account.
This package provides the userspace libraries for iptables to use extensions in the xtables-addons-modules package.
Note: this package is only useful with a corresponding xtables-addons-dkms package, which you may produce with module-assistant:
module-assistant auto-install xtables-addons-source
Package: xtables-addons-common Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.8-2 Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: xtables-addons Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Pierre Chifflier [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 448 Provides: xtables-addons-common-3.8 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libxtables12 (>= 1.6.0+snapshot20161117) Recommends: xtables-addons-dkms, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, unzip, wget Suggests: libtext-csv-xs-perl Breaks: ipset (« 6.11~) Filename: pool/universe/x/xtables-addons/xtables-addons-common_3.8-2_amd64.deb Size: 53936 MD5sum: 5c40e2008f711408e7ee87b8d0e467c5 SHA1: ede8a7be0437d5b397d233694cf4eaa4d77c341c SHA256: addb187c8d467c42849d1bd31653f52d10b59eea2358acd139f816725fe0b630 Homepage: http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/ Description-en: Extensions targets and matches for iptables [tools, libs] Xtables-addons provides extra modules for iptables not present in the kernel, and is the successor of patch-o-matic. Extensions includes new targets like TEE, TARPIT, CHAOS, or modules like geoip and account.
This package provides the userspace libraries for iptables to use extensions in the xtables-addons-modules package.
Note: this package is only useful with a corresponding xtables-addons-dkms package, which you may produce with module-assistant:
module-assistant auto-install xtables-addons-source
There are three methods to install xtables-addons-common
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xtables-addons-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xtables-addons-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xtables-addons-common
Install xtables-addons-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xtables-addons-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xtables-addons-common
Install xtables-addons-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install xtables-addons-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xtables-addons-common
How To Uninstall xtables-addons-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xtables-addons-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xtables-addons-common
Uninstall xtables-addons-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xtables-addons-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xtables-addons-common
Remove xtables-addons-common Configurations and Data
To remove xtables-addons-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xtables-addons-common
Remove xtables-addons-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xtables-addons-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xtables-addons-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xtables-addons-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.