How To Install ferm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ferm
on CentOS 7.
What is ferm
Ferm is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. Ferm allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file, and to be loaded with one command. The firewall configuration resembles structured programming-like language, which can contain levels and lists.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ferm
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ferm.
Install ferm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ferm
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ferm on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ferm
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ferm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ferm
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ferm
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.