How To Install python-prelude on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prelude
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-prelude
python-prelude 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 Python 2 bindings for Prelude.
There are three methods to install python-prelude
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-prelude Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prelude
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-prelude
Install python-prelude Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prelude
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-prelude
Install python-prelude 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-prelude
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-prelude
How To Uninstall python-prelude on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-prelude
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-prelude
Uninstall python-prelude And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-prelude
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-prelude
Remove python-prelude Configurations and Data
To remove python-prelude
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-prelude
Remove python-prelude configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-prelude
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-prelude
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prelude
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.