How To Install ssg-debian on Debian 12

Learn how to install ssg-debian on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ssg-debian is SCAP Guides and benchmarks targeting Debian releases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-debian on Debian 12.

What is ssg-debian

ssg-debian is:

This package contains all the SCAP guides, benchmarks and remediation files for Debian releases. Remediation files are Shell-based, Ansible-based and Puppet-based depending on the target infrastructure deployment policy.

SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) is a set of standards used in order to automatically manage vulnerabilities and policy compliance evaluation on a complete deployed infrastructure. SSG provides various official policies such as PCI-DSS, NIST SP-800-53 or ANSSI best practices as official policies.

This package include SCAP guides for:

  • Debian 10
  • Debian 11

There are three methods to install ssg-debian on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ssg-debian Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ssg-debian using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ssg-debian

Install ssg-debian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ssg-debian using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ssg-debian

Install ssg-debian 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 ssg-debian using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ssg-debian

How To Uninstall ssg-debian on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ssg-debian package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ssg-debian

Uninstall ssg-debian And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ssg-debian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssg-debian

Remove ssg-debian Configurations and Data

To remove ssg-debian configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ssg-debian

Remove ssg-debian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ssg-debian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssg-debian

Dependencies

ssg-debian have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-debian package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.