How To Install zeek on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeek on Kali Linux. zeek is passive network traffic analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeek on Kali Linux.

What is zeek

zeek is:

Zeek is primarily a security monitor that inspects all traffic on a link in depth for signs of suspicious activity. More generally, however, Zeek supports a wide range of traffic analysis tasks even outside of the security domain, including performance measurements and helping with trouble-shooting.

Zeek comes with built-in functionality for a range of analysis and detection tasks, including detecting malware by interfacing to external registries, reporting vulnerable versions of software seen on the network, identifying popular web applications, detecting SSH brute-forcing, validating SSL certificate chains, among others.

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

Install zeek Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zeek

Install zeek Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zeek

Install zeek Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install zeek

How To Uninstall zeek on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove zeek

Uninstall zeek And Its Dependencies

To uninstall zeek and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zeek

Remove zeek Configurations and Data

To remove zeek configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge zeek

Remove zeek configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zeek

Dependencies

zeek have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeek package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.