shorewall-lite command not found

Introduction

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

shorewall-lite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shorewall-lite: command not found

Solutions to shorewall-lite: command not found

How To Fix shorewall-lite: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu shorewall-lite is provided by shorewall-lite package.

shorewall-lite is:

Shorewall allows you to describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. It reads those configuration files and, with the help of the iptables utility, configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall supports a wide range of router/firewall/gateway applications, traffic shaping and almost every type of VPN.

The shorewall-lite package is designed to allow you to maintain all Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your network.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shorewall-lite

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

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

sudo apt -y install shorewall-lite

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

sudo aptitude install shorewall-lite

Summary

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