How To Install firewalld on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalld
on Kali Linux.
What is firewalld
firewalld 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.
There are three methods to install firewalld
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 firewalld Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firewalld
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install firewalld Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install firewalld
using apt
by running the following command:
Install firewalld 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 firewalld
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall firewalld on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the firewalld
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall firewalld And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firewalld
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove firewalld Configurations and Data
To remove firewalld
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove firewalld configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firewalld
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
firewalld have the following dependencies:
- dbus
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-nm-1.0
- iptables
- policykit-1
- python3-dbus
- python3-gi
- python3-nftables
- python3-firewall
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firewalld
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.