How To Install firewall-config on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config
on Kali Linux.
What is firewall-config
firewall-config is:
firewalld is a dynamically managed firewall daemon with support for network/firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. It has support for IPv4, IPv6 firewall settings and for ethernet bridges and has a separation of runtime and persistent configuration options. It also provides a D-Bus interface for services or applications to add and apply firewall rules on-the-fly.
This package provides a graphical configuration tool to change the firewall settings.
There are three methods to install firewall-config
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 firewall-config Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firewall-config
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install firewall-config Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firewall-config
using apt
by running the following command:
Install firewall-config 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.
After updating apt database, We can install firewall-config
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall firewall-config on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the firewall-config
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall firewall-config And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firewall-config
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove firewall-config Configurations and Data
To remove firewall-config
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove firewall-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firewall-config
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
firewall-config have the following dependencies:
- firewalld
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- gir1.2-nm-1.0
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- python3-dbus
- python3-gi
- python3-firewall
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewall-config
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.