How To Install iptstate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate in Fedora 36. iptstate is A top-like display of IP Tables state table entries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptstate.

Install iptstate 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 iptstate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iptstate

Install iptstate 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 iptstate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iptstate

How To Uninstall iptstate on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the iptstate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iptstate

iptstate Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/0be69efb8a0c832e6cdb3662e4106c76bab511
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).