How To Install firehol on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install firehol

How To Uninstall firehol on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove firehol

Remove firehol Configurations and Data

To remove firehol configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• init-system-helpers
• firehol-common
• lsb-base

References

• firehol website

Summary

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