How To Install pyroman on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pyroman
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pyroman
pyroman is:
Pyroman is a firewall tool written in Python for complex networks, but it can of course also handle simple single-host-single-link setups.
Interesting features:
- Fast, due to use of iptables-restore for mass setting of rules
- Rollback to previous firewall configuration on errors
- Safety options to prevent mistakes in configuration (success confirmation prompt and/or scripted external verification)
- Detailed error reporting
- Lots of verification checks done before execution
- Powerful yet clean configuration files (in Python and/or XML)
- Designed for multiple hosts, firewalls, networks
- Consistent firewalls for IPv4 and IPv6
- Can print static rules in single-shot usage to load with other tools such as iptables-restore and iptables-persistent, or to manually adapt
Pyroman is inspired by Shorewall and FireHOL, but tries to improve upon them with respect to performance and ease of configuration.
Pyroman currently only configures iptables/netfilter firewalls, it does not include configuration utilities for setting up VPN or traffic shaping.
There are three methods to install pyroman
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pyroman Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pyroman
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pyroman
Install pyroman Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pyroman
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pyroman
Install pyroman 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 pyroman
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pyroman
How To Uninstall pyroman on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pyroman
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pyroman
Uninstall pyroman And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pyroman
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pyroman
Remove pyroman Configurations and Data
To remove pyroman
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pyroman
Remove pyroman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pyroman
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pyroman
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pyroman
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.