How To Install firehol on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol on Debian 11.
What is firehol
firehol is:
FireHOL generates generic firewalls with an extremely simple but powerful configuration language based on bash, enabling you to design any kind of local or routing stateful packet filtering firewall with ease.
FireHOL is the firewall counterpart of the FireQOS traffic shaper; both FireHOL and FireQOS support IPv4 and IPv6.
This package provides the firewall program.
There are three methods to install firehol on Debian 11. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install firehol
Install firehol Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install firehol using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install firehol
Install firehol 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install firehol using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install firehol
How To Uninstall firehol on Debian 11
To uninstall only the firehol package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove firehol
Uninstall firehol And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firehol and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove firehol
Remove firehol Configurations and Data
To remove firehol configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge firehol
Remove firehol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firehol configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firehol
Dependencies
firehol have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.