How To Install firewall-config on CentOS 8

firewall-config is Firewall configuration application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config on CentOS 8.

What is firewall-config

The firewall configuration application provides an configuration interface for firewalld.

We can use yum or dnf to install firewall-config on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firewall-config.

Install firewall-config on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install firewall-config using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firewall-config

Install firewall-config on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install firewall-config using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firewall-config

How To Uninstall firewall-config on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the firewall-config package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firewall-config

firewall-config Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/firewall-config
/usr/share/applications/firewall-config.desktop
/usr/share/firewalld/firewall-config.glade
/usr/share/firewalld/gtk3_chooserbutton.py
/usr/share/firewalld/gtk3_niceexpander.py
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.fedoraproject.FirewallConfig.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firewall-config.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firewall-config.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/firewall-config.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/firewall-config.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.