How To Install python3-firewall on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-firewall
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-firewall
python3-firewall 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 Python3 bindings for firewalld.
There are three methods to install python3-firewall
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 python3-firewall Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-firewall
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-firewall
Install python3-firewall Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-firewall
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-firewall
Install python3-firewall 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 python3-firewall
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-firewall
How To Uninstall python3-firewall on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-firewall
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-firewall
Uninstall python3-firewall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-firewall
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-firewall
Remove python3-firewall Configurations and Data
To remove python3-firewall
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-firewall
Remove python3-firewall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-firewall
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-firewall
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-firewall
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.