How To Install daq on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daq on CentOS 8.
What is daq
Snort 2.9 introduces the DAQ, or Data Acquisition library, for packet I/O. The DAQ replaces direct calls to libpcap functions with an abstraction layer that facilitates operation on a variety of hardware and software interfaces without requiring changes to Snort.
We can use yum or dnf to install daq on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daq.
Install daq 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 daq using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install daq
Install daq 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 daq using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install daq
How To Uninstall daq on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the daq package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove daq
daq Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/f4d6759457a1741c868f46ea52d6bed3d0cb05
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/3e4f4415d3b455484e7d242b1fdcd9e0597216
/usr/lib64/libdaq.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdaq.so.2.0.4
/usr/lib64/libsfbpf.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsfbpf.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/daq
/usr/share/doc/daq/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/daq/README
/usr/share/licenses/daq
/usr/share/licenses/daq/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daq on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.