How can I install the EOS Firewall later?

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How can I install the EOS Firewall later?

When I last reinstalled EOS KDE, I deselected the EOS firewall in Calamares because I thought I could do without it. Now I want to install it again, along with the taskbar widget. Which packages do I need to install for this?

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Hi mate,
You’ll need firewalld and plasma-firewall

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During the previous installation, I also installed the EOS firewall, but not the Plasma firewall. I then accessed the UI via the widget. Unfortunately, I don’t know which package the widget was part of.

I’m not familiar with the Plasma firewall’s user interface. Is it configured similarly?

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I installed the firewall at the time of installing my system and those are the two packages which got installed.
The widget was there by default. :smiley:

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thx @Noodly

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My pleasure. :smiley:

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You don’t want to use plasma-firewall. Instead, use the UI that is included with firewalld

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Thx @dalto , do I also need to activate the firewalld.service?

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Oh, that’s interesting, so can I remove plasma-firewall

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Yes:

systemctl enable --now firewalld.service

Yes, you shouldn’t need it.

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Thanks mate :+1:

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If you (or anyone else) decides to use ufw with KDE rather than firewalld, then you can install plasma-firewall to use as a GUI for it.

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