How To Install shorewall6-lite on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall6-lite
on CentOS 7.
What is shorewall6-lite
Shorewall6 Lite is a companion product to Shorewall6 (the IPV6 firewall) 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 shorewall6-lite
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shorewall6-lite.
Install shorewall6-lite on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install shorewall6-lite
using yum
by running the following command:
Install shorewall6-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.
After updating yum database, We can install shorewall6-lite
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall shorewall6-lite on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the shorewall6-lite
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shorewall6-lite
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.