How To Install prelude-manager on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on Debian 9.
What is prelude-manager
prelude-manager 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.
This package provides the Prelude Manager, which is a high availability server that accepts secured connections from distributed sensors or other managers and saves received events to a media specified by the user (database, log files, mail, etc).
There are three methods to install prelude-manager 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-manager 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-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-manager
Install prelude-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-manager
Install prelude-manager 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-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-manager
How To Uninstall prelude-manager on Debian 9
To uninstall only the prelude-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-manager
Uninstall prelude-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-manager
Remove prelude-manager Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-manager configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-manager
Remove prelude-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-manager
Dependencies
prelude-manager have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
