How To Install firehol-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.