How To Install uruk on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uruk on Debian 12.
What is uruk
uruk is:
Uruk is a wrapper for Linux ip[6]tables. A very simple shell script, but useful if you need similar (but not the same) packet filtering configurations on lots of hosts. It uses a template file, which gets sourced as a shell script, to get lists of source addresses, allowed to use specific network services. Listing these groups of allowed hosts and allowed services is all what’s needed to configure your box.
Main difference with other firewall setup tools: uruk is just a very small (just 14K!) shell script, no gui, no interactive setup, no default configuration. You’ll like this if you’d rather not have lots of (probably buggy) code between you and your filtering rules.
There are three methods to install uruk on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install uruk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uruk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uruk
Install uruk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uruk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uruk
Install uruk 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install uruk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uruk
How To Uninstall uruk on Debian 12
To uninstall only the uruk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uruk
Uninstall uruk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uruk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uruk
Remove uruk Configurations and Data
To remove uruk configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uruk
Remove uruk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uruk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uruk
Dependencies
uruk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uruk package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.