How To Install firehol-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install firehol-tools

How To Uninstall firehol-tools on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• firehol-common
• curl
• wget
• whois
• jq
• screen

References

• firehol-tools website

Summary

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