How To Install vast on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install vast on Debian 11. vast is network telemetry engine for data-driven security investigations

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vast on Debian 11.

What is vast

vast is:

VAST is a distributed platform for high-performance network forensics and incident response that provides both continuous ingestion of voluminous event streams and interactive query performance. VAST leverages a native implementation of the actor model to scale both intra-machine across available CPU cores, and inter-machine over a cluster of commodity systems.

There are three methods to install vast on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vast Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vast

Install vast Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vast using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vast

Install vast 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 vast using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vast

How To Uninstall vast on Debian 11

To uninstall only the vast package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vast

Uninstall vast And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vast and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vast

Remove vast Configurations and Data

To remove vast configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vast

Remove vast configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vast

Dependencies

vast have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vast package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.