How To Install aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. aide.x86_64 is Intrusion detection environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `aide.x86_64`

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file integrity checker and intrusion detection program.

We can use yum to install aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aide.x86_64.

Install aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install aide.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aide.x86_64

How To Uninstall aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the aide.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove aide.x86_64

aide.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/aide.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/aide
/usr/sbin/aide
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/README
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/README.quickstart
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/aide-attributes.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/bzip2.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/gpg2_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/gpg2_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/gpg_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/gpg_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/contrib/sshaide.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide-0.16.2/manual.html
/usr/share/man/man1/aide.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/aide
/var/log/aide

References

aide.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.