Downloads

Sources

We only provide source tarballs. Fail2ban is written in Python, thus no compilation is required. You can even run Fail2ban without installing it.

Sources	The official releases are available here.
Snapshots	Nightly snapshots are available here.

Packages

Fail2ban is also already packaged for most distributions by contributors. Many thanks to all of them.

Gentoo	Packages are in Portage.
Debian	Packages are available here. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
Ubuntu	Packages are available here.
Fedora	RPMs are available by simply running: yum install fail2ban
Red Hat/CentOS	RPMs are available through EPEL.
Gral Linux	RPMs are available here. These RPMs can be used on Centos 3 and RHAS 3 too.
Ipcop	Addon is available here. Thanks to Markus Hoffmann
Mandriva	RPMs are available through official contrib repository. Please run "urpmi fail2ban". Thanks to Tomasz Paweł Gajc
SUSE	RPMs are available packman here. Thanks to Detlef Reichelt
openSUSE	RPMs are available obs here. Thanks to Andrej Semen
ArchLinux	Package is available in AUR.
Slackware	Packages are available here. Thanks to Cristian Vedovato. A SlackBuild script to generate Slackware packages is available here.
FreeBSD	Port is here.
Mac OS X	Installer Package is available here