How To Install nftables.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install nftables.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. nftables.i686 is Netfilter Tables userspace utillites

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nftables.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `nftables.i686`

Netfilter Tables userspace utilities.

We can use yum to install nftables.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nftables.i686.

Install nftables.i686 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 nftables.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nftables.i686

How To Uninstall nftables.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the nftables.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove nftables.i686

nftables.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/nftables
/etc/nftables/all-in-one.nft
/etc/nftables/arp-filter.nft
/etc/nftables/bridge-filter.nft
/etc/nftables/inet-filter.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv4-filter.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv4-mangle.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv4-nat.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv4-raw.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv6-filter.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv6-mangle.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv6-nat.nft
/etc/nftables/ipv6-raw.nft
/etc/nftables/netdev-ingress.nft
/etc/sysconfig/nftables.conf
/usr/lib/libnftables.so.0
/usr/lib/libnftables.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nftables.service
/usr/sbin/nft
/usr/share/licenses/nftables-0.9.0
/usr/share/licenses/nftables-0.9.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/nft.8.gz

References

nftables.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nftables.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.