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DanielHCoding

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Registered: 2022-09-12

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] firewalld: no applet after installation

After installing firewalld by

sudo pacman -S firewalld
systemctl enable --now firewalld

and trying to run

firewall-applet

this error message appears:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/firewall-applet", line 24, in <module>
    from PyQt5 import QtGui, QtCore, QtWidgets
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'

Installing PyQt5 manually with

pip install PyQt5

the error changes to

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/firewall-applet", line 31, in <module>
    from dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 import DBusQtMainLoop
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dbus.mainloop.pyqt5'

Any idea how to solve this in order to get the little firewall icon in the taskbar working?

Last edited by DanielHCoding (2022-10-16 12:17:17)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED] firewalld: no applet after installation

Pacman told you when you installed firewalld that to use the applet you also need to install python-pyqt5.

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DanielHCoding

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Registered: 2022-09-12

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] firewalld: no applet after installation

That's the solution. I simply overlooked that the applet is optional. After installing the optional dependencies

sudo pacman -S nm-connection-editor python-pyqt5

and rebooting everything works fine.

Thanks a lot for the quick help!

Last edited by DanielHCoding (2022-10-16 16:31:05)