How To Install firehol-common on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-common on Kali Linux. firehol-common is easy to use but powerful traffic suite (common library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-common on Kali Linux.

What is firehol-common

firehol-common is:

FireHOL suite is a powerful traffic suite of tools that generate generic firewalls, traffic shappers, and more with an extremely simple but powerful configuration language based on bash, enabling you to design and manage any kind of traffic with ease.

This package provides the common library.

There are three methods to install firehol-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install firehol-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install firehol-common

Install firehol-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install firehol-common

Install firehol-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install firehol-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install firehol-common

How To Uninstall firehol-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the firehol-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove firehol-common

Uninstall firehol-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall firehol-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove firehol-common

Remove firehol-common Configurations and Data

To remove firehol-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge firehol-common

Remove firehol-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove firehol-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firehol-common

Dependencies

firehol-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.