How To Install shorewall-lite on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 8.
What is shorewall-lite
Shorewall Lite is a companion product to Shorewall that allows network administrators to centralize the configuration of Shorewall-based firewalls. Shorewall Lite runs a firewall script generated by a machine with a Shorewall rule compiler. A machine running Shorewall Lite does not need to have a Shorewall rule compiler installed.
We can use yum or dnf to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shorewall-lite.
Install shorewall-lite 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-lite using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shorewall-lite
Install shorewall-lite 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-lite using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shorewall-lite
How To Uninstall shorewall-lite on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the shorewall-lite package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shorewall-lite
shorewall-lite Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/shorewall-lite
/etc/shorewall-lite
/etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall-lite.conf
/etc/sysconfig/shorewall-lite
/usr/lib/systemd/system/shorewall-lite.service
/usr/libexec/shorewall-lite
/usr/libexec/shorewall-lite/shorecap
/usr/sbin/shorewall-lite
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-lite
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-lite/changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/shorewall-lite/releasenotes.txt
/usr/share/licenses/shorewall-lite
/usr/share/licenses/shorewall-lite/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/shorewall-lite-vardir.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/shorewall-lite.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/shorewall-lite.8.gz
/usr/share/shorewall-lite
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/configpath
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/functions
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/helpers
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/lib.base
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.essential
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.extensions
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.ipset
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.tc
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.xtables
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/version
/var/lib/shorewall-lite
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.