How To Install firewall-applet on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-applet in Fedora 36. firewall-applet is Firewall panel applet

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-applet on Fedora 36.

What is firewall-applet

The firewall panel applet provides a status information of firewalld and also the firewall settings.

We can use yum or dnf to install firewall-applet on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install firewall-applet.

Install firewall-applet on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firewall-applet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install firewall-applet

Install firewall-applet on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install firewall-applet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install firewall-applet

How To Uninstall firewall-applet on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the firewall-applet package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove firewall-applet

firewall-applet Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/firewall
/etc/firewall/applet.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/firewall-applet.desktop
/usr/bin/firewall-applet
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firewall-applet-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firewall-applet-panic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/firewall-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/firewall-applet-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/firewall-applet-panic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/firewall-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firewall-applet-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firewall-applet-panic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/firewall-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firewall-applet-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firewall-applet-panic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/firewall-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firewall-applet-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firewall-applet-panic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/firewall-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firewall-applet-error.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firewall-applet-panic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/firewall-applet.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/firewall-applet.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-applet on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).