How To Install ssg-nondebian on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-nondebian on Debian 10.
What is ssg-nondebian
ssg-nondebian is:
This package contains all the SCAP guides, benchmarks and remediation files for nondebian operating system targets such as Red-Hat RHEL or SuSE. 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.
There are three methods to install ssg-nondebian on Debian 10. 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-nondebian 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-nondebian using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ssg-nondebian
Install ssg-nondebian Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ssg-nondebian using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ssg-nondebian
Install ssg-nondebian 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-nondebian using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ssg-nondebian
How To Uninstall ssg-nondebian on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ssg-nondebian package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ssg-nondebian
Uninstall ssg-nondebian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ssg-nondebian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssg-nondebian
Remove ssg-nondebian Configurations and Data
To remove ssg-nondebian configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ssg-nondebian
Remove ssg-nondebian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ssg-nondebian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssg-nondebian
Dependencies
ssg-nondebian have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-nondebian package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
