How To Install aide on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide
on CentOS 8.
What is aide
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file integrity checker and intrusion detection program.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install aide
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aide.
Install aide on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aide
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aide
Install aide on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install aide
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aide
How To Uninstall aide on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the aide
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aide
aide Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/aide.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/aide
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/7944ef056c08d3d7bc73fffc8ad6913e0a2a73
/usr/sbin/aide
/usr/share/doc/aide
/usr/share/doc/aide/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aide/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aide/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/aide/README
/usr/share/doc/aide/README.quickstart
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/aide-attributes.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/bzip2.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg2_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg2_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg_check.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/gpg_update.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/contrib/sshaide.sh
/usr/share/doc/aide/manual.html
/usr/share/licenses/aide
/usr/share/licenses/aide/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/aide.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/aide
/var/log/aide
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.