How To Install fwanalog on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwanalog
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fwanalog
fwanalog is:
fwanalog is a shell script that parses and summarizes firewall logfiles. It is able to work on firewall logs from ipchains (Linux 2.2), iptables (Linux 2.4), ipf (OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD) and some ZyXEL/NetGear routers.
It uses analog to generate the log-files, which includes daily statistics and such, and is both formatted in html and text (for online perusing, and a daily email, for instance).
There are three methods to install fwanalog
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fwanalog Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fwanalog
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fwanalog
Install fwanalog Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fwanalog
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fwanalog
Install fwanalog 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fwanalog
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fwanalog
How To Uninstall fwanalog on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fwanalog
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fwanalog
Uninstall fwanalog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fwanalog
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fwanalog
Remove fwanalog Configurations and Data
To remove fwanalog
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fwanalog
Remove fwanalog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fwanalog
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fwanalog
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwanalog
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.