How To Install prewikka on Fedora 34

prewikka is Graphical front-end analysis console for IDMEF

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on Fedora 34.

What is prewikka

Prewikka is the backend of the web browser interface of Prelude SIEM. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and heartbeat views, and has user customization and configurable filters. Prewikka also provides access to external tools such as whois and traceroute.

We can use yum or dnf to install prewikka on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prewikka.

Install prewikka on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install prewikka using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prewikka

Install prewikka on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install prewikka using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prewikka

How To Uninstall prewikka on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the prewikka package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove prewikka

prewikka Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/prewikka
/etc/prewikka/conf.d
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/auth.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/external_app.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/logs.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/riskoverview.conf
/etc/prewikka/menu.yml
/etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf
/usr/share/doc/prewikka
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/README
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/prewikka
/usr/share/prewikka/prewikka.wsgi

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.