How To Install iptstate on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate on Debian 11.
What is iptstate
iptstate is:
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.
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
- much more…
To use iptstate, CONNTRACK should be enabled in your kernel.
There are three methods to install iptstate on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install iptstate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install iptstate using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install iptstate
Install iptstate Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install iptstate using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install iptstate
Install iptstate Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install iptstate using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install iptstate
How To Uninstall iptstate on Debian 11
To uninstall only the iptstate package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove iptstate
Uninstall iptstate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall iptstate and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove iptstate
Remove iptstate Configurations and Data
To remove iptstate configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge iptstate
Remove iptstate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove iptstate configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iptstate
Dependencies
iptstate have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
