How To Install aide on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on Rocky Linux 8. aide is Intrusion detection environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on Rocky Linux 8.

What is aide

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file integrity checker and intrusion detection program.

We can use yum or dnf to install aide on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aide.

Install aide on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install aide

Install aide on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install aide

How To Uninstall aide on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove aide

aide Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/aide.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/aide
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/639c44c97cad360c72030290114c782f2b33a7
/usr/sbin/aide
/usr/share/doc/aide
/usr/share/doc/aide/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aide/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aide/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/aide/README
/usr/share/doc/aide/README.quickstart
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/aide-attributes.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/bzip2.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg2_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg2_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/sshaide.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/manual.html
/usr/share/licenses/aide
/usr/share/licenses/aide/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/aide.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/aide
/var/log/aide

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.