How To Install plasma-firewall on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-firewall on Ubuntu.

What is `plasma-firewall`

plasma-firewall is:

Plasma Firewall provides a way to graphically configure a firewall service.

Supported firewalls are:

firewalld
ufw

There are three methods to install plasma-firewall on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install plasma-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 plasma-firewall using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plasma-firewall

Install plasma-firewall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plasma-firewall using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plasma-firewall

Install plasma-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 plasma-firewall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plasma-firewall

How To Uninstall plasma-firewall on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the plasma-firewall package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plasma-firewall

Uninstall plasma-firewall And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plasma-firewall and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-firewall

Remove plasma-firewall Configurations and Data

To remove plasma-firewall configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-firewall

Remove plasma-firewall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plasma-firewall configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-firewall

Dependencies

plasma-firewall have the following dependencies:

References

plasma-firewall website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-firewall package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.