How To Install iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. iptstate.x86_64 is A top-like display of IP Tables state table entries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `iptstate.x86_64`

IP Tables State (iptstate) was originally written to implement the “state top” feature of IP Filter in IP Tables. “State top” displays the states held by your stateful firewall in a top-like manner. Since IP Tables doesn’t have a built in way to easily display this information even once, an option was added to just have it display the state table once. Features include - Top-like realtime state table information - Sorting by any field - Reversible sorting - Single display of state table - Customizable refresh rate - Display filtering - Color-coding - Open Source - much more…

We can use yum to install iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptstate.x86_64.

Install iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iptstate.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iptstate.x86_64

How To Uninstall iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the iptstate.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove iptstate.x86_64

iptstate.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/iptstate
/usr/share/doc/iptstate-2.2.5
/usr/share/doc/iptstate-2.2.5/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iptstate-2.2.5/README
/usr/share/man/man8/iptstate.8.gz

References

iptstate.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptstate.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.