How To Install firehol-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-tools on Debian 12.
What is firehol-tools
firehol-tools 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 extra tools.
There are three methods to install firehol-tools on Debian 12. 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-tools 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-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install firehol-tools
Install firehol-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install firehol-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install firehol-tools
Install firehol-tools 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-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install firehol-tools
How To Uninstall firehol-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the firehol-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove firehol-tools
Uninstall firehol-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firehol-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove firehol-tools
Remove firehol-tools Configurations and Data
To remove firehol-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge firehol-tools
Remove firehol-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firehol-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firehol-tools
Dependencies
firehol-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firehol-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
