How To Install iptstate on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptstate.
Install iptstate on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the iptstate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iptstate
iptstate Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/6365110c47e86ab118b1be75601bfeaceed49c
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
