How To Install prelude-lml on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml on Debian 9.
What is prelude-lml
prelude-lml is:
Prelude is a Universal “Security Information Management” (SIM) system. Its goals are performance and modularity. It is divided in two main parts :
- the Prelude sensors, responsible for generating alerts, such as snort sensor, featuring a signature engine, plugins for protocol analysis, and intrusion detection plugins, and the Prelude log monitoring lackey.
- the Prelude report server, collecting data from Prelude sensors, and generating user-readable reports.
Prelude-LML is a signature based log analyzer monitoring logfile and received syslog messages for suspicious activity. It handle events generated by a large set of components, including but not limited to: Apache, BigIP, Grsecurity, Honeyd, ipchains, Netfilter, ipfw, Nagios, NTsyslog, NuFW, PAM, Portsentry, Postfix, Proftpd, ssh, etc.
There are three methods to install prelude-lml on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install prelude-lml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-lml
Install prelude-lml Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-lml
Install prelude-lml Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-lml
How To Uninstall prelude-lml on Debian 9
To uninstall only the prelude-lml package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-lml
Uninstall prelude-lml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-lml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-lml
Remove prelude-lml Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-lml configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-lml
Remove prelude-lml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-lml configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-lml
Dependencies
prelude-lml have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
