The Ubuntu or Kubuntu 8.04 installation instructions represent the easiest way to install iqfire-wall, and it is the recommended choice for the owners of the 8.04 version of ubuntu (or kubuntu).

The generic instructions apply to all linux distributions, and they explain how to build ipfire-wall from the software sources, and they are addressed to users having other linux distributions than ubuntu/kubuntu, version 8.04, or curious/expert people.

Generic instructions and requirements for iqfire-wall installation

• Administration rights
• To install iqfire-wall, you need to have administrative rights on the computer. This means that you have the root password. Provided this, all the commands and actions proposed in this installation guide must be executed as root. Usually, a normal user can achieve the administrator's privileges by typing
  su -
  on a command line prompt (a terminal such as Gnome-Terminal or Kde Konsole), or (i.e. Ubuntu/Kubuntu distributions prepending the command
  sudo
  to every command suggested in the instructions on this page.
  In any of the two cases, the root password is required (or your password/sudo password if using sudo, for example in ubuntu).
• Dependencies/requirements
• Linux kernel series 2.6.x, with x possibly greater than 18 (visit www.kernel.org;
• development environment, including the c, c++ compilers (gcc suite);
• the Qt version 4 development libraries, usually called something like libqt4, libqt4-dev, libqt4-core, libqt4-gui...
• the KDE version 4 basic libraries and the konsole for kde4 package. The basic libraries must also include the development files, because iqfire-wall uses the konsole for kde4 as a part in the main window, and such libraries are needed to embed a terminal into another window as a part. In the KDE web site one can find the installation instructions for the new version of kde4;
• the Qwt widgets for technical applications libraries, which provide the layer to develop the statistic graph inside iqfire-wall. These libraries must be version 5 and must be downloaded/compiled with support for Qt4, not Qt3. The download page is here;
• Installation

The installation steps consist into downloading and installing iqfire-wall on your system. iqfire-wall is hosted on sourceforge.net since the creation of the project ipfire-wall. Actually, the project has the same name although the package IPFIRE-wall now contains iqfire-wall too. You will be able to download the official releases, packaged as tar.gz compressed archives, or to choose the snapshots from the CVS repository, which ensure the most up to date code available.

The package, both from tar.gz compressed archives or CVS includes

• the ipfire-wall kernel module;
• the ipfire-wall console firewall (the console version, as it was until version 0.98.6);
• the new iqfire-wall graphical user interface.
• Download the IqFIRE-wall sources choosing one of the two methods listed below:
• the .tar.gz package from sourceforge.net, which represents the latest package of the firewall distribution;
• the latest snapshot available, containing the most up to date modifications on the code of iqfire-wall, via the CVS sourceforge.net repository:
  • open a terminal in your linux desktop;
  • execute cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ipfire-wall.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ipfire-wall login
  • execute cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ipfire-wall.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ipfire-wall co -P IPFIRE-wall
• if you downlaoded the .tar.gz package, unpack it the in a directory of your choice and extract it right clicking on the IPFIRE-wall-x.y.z.tar.gz icon and choosing the correct action to extract the .tar.gz archives or give the command tar -xzf IPFIRE-wall.x.y.z.tar.gz from the command line;
• open a terminal and change directory into IPFIRE-wall's: cd /directory/of/download/IPFIRE-wall-x.y.z;
• build and install the firewall launching the script install.sh with the command ./install.sh, and confirming with the key return at the first installer question.
• If you are installing under debian GNU/Linux, remember the parameter debian when launching the install script (i.e. ./install.sh debian);
• If something fails, read the Requirements once again to be sure you did not forget to install a needed dependency.
• Once installed correctly, to start the firewall, open a terminal, become root by executing
  su -,
  provide the administration password and type
  /etc/init.d/rc.ipfire start.
  This will load the ipfire-wall framework into the system, the default rules and configuration that the firewall comes with at the moment of the first installation.
  Note:
  • if you normally use sudo to execute programs which require administration privileges (for instance if you run an ubuntu based Linux distribution), then instead of executing su - in the step above, just type sudo /etc/init.d/rc.ipfire start at a command line prompt.
• The graphical user interface can be executed from the Applications menu in the Gnome or KDE panel, Internet submenu.
  In that submenu, three launchers are available:
  • ipfire-wall command line interface, the older console interface;
  • iqfire-wall graphical user interface, for normal user (recommended use);
  • iqfire-wall graphical user interface executed as root, to be used by the system administrator to configure system wide rules and configurations, i. e. the rules loaded at computer startup and valid for each user. You might be interested in reading the ipfire-wall documentation to learn about the architecture of ipfire-wall and the administrator/unprivileged users relationships.
• If you go to your desktop panel and click on the applications menu (menu K on KDE or Applications on Gnome), you should find a launcher for iqfire-wall under the Internet submenu. Click on it to launch iqfire-wall;
• optionally, you can drag with the mouse the icon above and drop it into the desktop workspace to create a launcher inside your desktop.
• To later reinstall iqfire-wall, re-run the script install.sh as above, adding the parameter clean to the invocation command.

iqfire-wall is (C) Giacomo Strangolino and is subject to the GPL licence.