How To Install shorewall-core on CentOS 8

shorewall-core is Core libraries for Shorewall

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.