How To Install prelude-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-tools on Rocky Linux 8. prelude-tools is Command-line tools for libprelude

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is prelude-tools

Provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager.

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

Install prelude-tools 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 prelude-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prelude-tools

Install prelude-tools 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 prelude-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prelude-tools

How To Uninstall prelude-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the prelude-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove prelude-tools

prelude-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/prelude
/etc/prelude/default
/etc/prelude/default/client.conf
/etc/prelude/default/global.conf
/etc/prelude/default/idmef-client.conf
/etc/prelude/default/tls.conf
/etc/prelude/profile
/usr/bin/prelude-adduser
/usr/bin/prelude-admin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/3e5e03869124b1caf197761be325b9b34995b1
/usr/share/man/man1/prelude-admin.1.gz
/var/spool/prelude

References

Summary

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