shorewall command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix shorewall command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

shorewall: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shorewall: command not found

In Ubuntu shorewall is provided by shorewall-core package.

shorewall-core is:

This package provides the core Shorewall components, which are required for the rest of the Shorewall packages to work.

There is not an especially good reason to have this package installed all by itself.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install shorewall-core

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install shorewall-core.

sudo apt -y install shorewall-core

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install shorewall-core

In this tutorial we learn how to fix shorewall command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.