How to Install and Uninstall shorewall6-lite Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the shorewall6-lite on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "shorewall6-lite" package

This guide let you learn how to install shorewall6-lite on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "shorewall6-lite" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall shorewall6-lite 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 shorewall6-lite package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: shorewall6-lite
Source: shorewall
Version: 5.2.8-2
Installed-Size: 71
Maintainer: Debian Shorewall Team
Architecture: all
Depends: iproute2, iptables, shorewall-core (= 5.2.8-2), init-system-helpers (>= 1.51)
Recommends: wget
Suggests: make, shorewall-doc
Conflicts: ferm, filtergen, guidedog, uif
Description: Shorewall (lite version with IPv6 support)
Description-md5: 0bfffbe58f12dfa8f9d6842d47fc37f3
Homepage: https://www.shorewall.org/
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::logging, admin::monitoring,
implemented-in::shell, interface::commandline, network::configuration,
network::firewall, protocol::ipv6, role::program, scope::utility,
security::firewall, use::configuring, works-with::network-traffic
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/shorewall/shorewall6-lite_5.2.8-2_all.deb
Size: 18728
MD5sum: ad6b2412003681e987caf7acebf61747
SHA256: 45a5da8aee2b8086db87ce5f68d6ee985c6356a470d59b74fcecafdc005504d5