How To Install libprelude-lua on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-lua
on Kali Linux.
What is libprelude-lua
libprelude-lua is:
The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing communication between the Prelude SIEM suite components. It provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager with transparent SSL, failover and replication support, asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking at the commandline, the configuration line, or wide configuration, available from the Manager), and a generic plugin API. It allows you to easily turn your favorite security program into a Prelude sensor.
This package contains the Lua bindings for Prelude.
There are three methods to install libprelude-lua
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libprelude-lua Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libprelude-lua
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprelude-lua
Install libprelude-lua Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprelude-lua
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprelude-lua
Install libprelude-lua Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libprelude-lua
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprelude-lua
How To Uninstall libprelude-lua on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libprelude-lua
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprelude-lua
Uninstall libprelude-lua And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprelude-lua
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprelude-lua
Remove libprelude-lua Configurations and Data
To remove libprelude-lua
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprelude-lua
Remove libprelude-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprelude-lua
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprelude-lua
Dependencies
libprelude-lua have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-lua
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.