How To Install conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is conntrack-tools.x86_64
With conntrack-tools you can setup a High Availability cluster and synchronize conntrack state between multiple firewalls. The conntrack-tools package contains two programs - conntrack connection tracking system. - conntrackd used to deploy highly available GNU/Linux firewalls and collect statistics of the firewall use. conntrack is used to search, list, inspect and maintain the netfilter connection tracking subsystem of the Linux kernel. Using conntrack, you can dump a list of all (or a filtered selection of) currently tracked connections, delete connections from the state table, and even add new ones. In addition, you can also monitor connection tracking events, e.g. show an event message (one line) per newly established connection.
We can use yum to install conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conntrack-tools.x86_64.
Install conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install conntrack-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install conntrack-tools.x86_64
How To Uninstall conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the conntrack-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove conntrack-tools.x86_64
conntrack-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/conntrackd
/etc/conntrackd/conntrackd.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/conntrackd.service
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_amanda.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_dhcpv6.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_ftp.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_rpc.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_sane.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_ssdp.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_tftp.so
/usr/lib64/conntrack-tools/ct_helper_tns.so
/usr/sbin/conntrack
/usr/sbin/conntrackd
/usr/sbin/nfct
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/TODO
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/cli
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/cli/test.sh
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/helper
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/helper/conntrackd.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/manual
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/manual/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/manual/config.xsl
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/manual/conntrack-tools.tmpl
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/manual/docbook.css
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/stats
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/stats/conntrackd.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/alarm
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/alarm/README
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/alarm/conntrackd.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/ftfw
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/ftfw/README
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/ftfw/conntrackd.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/keepalived.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/notrack
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/notrack/README
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/notrack/conntrackd.conf
/usr/share/doc/conntrack-tools-1.4.4/doc/sync/primary-backup.sh
/usr/share/man/man5/conntrackd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/conntrack.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/conntrackd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/nfct.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conntrack-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.