How to Install and Uninstall nftables Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 13,2024

You can also install and uninstall the nftables on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "nftables" package

This guide let you learn how to install nftables on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                nftables
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "nftables" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall nftables on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the nftables package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: nftables
Version: 1.0.6-2+deb12u2
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: Debian Netfilter Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libnftables1 (= 1.0.6-2+deb12u2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libedit2 (>= 3.1-20130611-0)
Recommends: netbase
Suggests: firewalld
Description: Program to control packet filtering rules by Netfilter project
Description-md5: 24bc0867cd246ced705663120fd62b92
Homepage: https://www.netfilter.org/
Section: net
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/n/nftables/nftables_1.0.6-2+deb12u2_amd64.deb
Size: 70292
MD5sum: 79577befa1f8df7ecbbebad5a0440cde
SHA256: 966ff20ce58c17163a771c02ddbca264291408f94c512bd85dd18da0ebdbe88c