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sunwarr10r
Asked: 2018-02-17 23:20:12 +0800 CST

Firestarter vs gufw after 2018?

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Firestarter was a package available through Debian that showed active connections (and a few other features which gufw does not have).

You could observe the log of attempts to connect and create rules to either block or allow similar connections by clicking on the log entries.

  1. Is there a way to get this sort of functionality now that Firestarter is not in active development and no longer an available Debian package?

  2. And are there ways to use firestarter with a VPN?

vpn gufw firestarter

1 Answers

  1. It seems that firestarter is obsolete in Ubuntu.

    It was shown in pkgs.org listings - Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (EOL now), currently repology does not show any Debian-based distros.

    Download link on official FireStarter site does not open.
    But you can try to build (from this source) on 16.04 LTS ESM or 18.04 LTS:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential bzr libglade2-dev libgnomeui-dev checkinstall
bzr branch lp:ubuntu/trusty/firestarter
cd firestarter
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall make install # change version to 1.0.3, release to 1, name to firestarter
sudo dpkg -i firestarter_1.0.3-1_amd64.deb
sudo firestarter

    Self-compiled firestarter launches but writes many errors and warning to the terminal.

    I think there was a reason of removing it from official repositories, so you should use gufw.

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