How To Install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7.
What is shorewall-lite
Shorewall Lite is a companion product to Shorewall that allows network administrators to centralize the configuration of Shorewall-based firewalls. Shorewall Lite runs a firewall script generated by a machine with a Shorewall rule compiler. A machine running Shorewall Lite does not need to have a Shorewall rule compiler installed.
We can use yum or dnf to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shorewall-lite.
Install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install shorewall-lite using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shorewall-lite
Install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install shorewall-lite using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shorewall-lite
How To Uninstall shorewall-lite on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the shorewall-lite package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shorewall-lite
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall-lite on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
