How To Install shorewall-core on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-core on CentOS 8.
What is shorewall-core
This package contains the core libraries for Shorewall.
We can use yum or dnf to install shorewall-core on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shorewall-core.
Install shorewall-core 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 shorewall-core using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shorewall-core
Install shorewall-core 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 shorewall-core using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shorewall-core
How To Uninstall shorewall-core on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the shorewall-core package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shorewall-core
shorewall-core Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/libexec/shorewall
/usr/libexec/shorewall/wait4ifup
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-core
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-core/changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-core/releasenotes.txt
/usr/share/licenses/shorewall-core
/usr/share/licenses/shorewall-core/COPYING
/usr/share/shorewall
/usr/share/shorewall/coreversion
/usr/share/shorewall/functions
/usr/share/shorewall/lib.base
/usr/share/shorewall/lib.cli
/usr/share/shorewall/lib.common
/usr/share/shorewall/lib.core
/usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-core on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.