How To Install iptstate on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate on CentOS 8.
What is iptstate
IP Tables State (iptstate) was originally written to implement the “state top” feature of IP Filter in IP Tables. “State top” displays the states held by your stateful firewall in a top-like manner. Since IP Tables doesn’t have a built in way to easily display this information even once, an option was added to just have it display the state table once. Features include - Top-like realtime state table information - Sorting by any field - Reversible sorting - Single display of state table - Customizable refresh rate - Display filtering - Color-coding - Open Source - much more…
We can use yum or dnf to install iptstate on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptstate.
Install iptstate 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 iptstate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iptstate
Install iptstate 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 iptstate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iptstate
How To Uninstall iptstate on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the iptstate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iptstate
iptstate Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/824af6b43938d43fe245bc4bc482ed906b6391
/usr/sbin/iptstate
/usr/share/doc/iptstate
/usr/share/doc/iptstate/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iptstate/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/iptstate.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.