How To Install prewikka on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on CentOS 8.
What is prewikka
Prewikka is the backend of the web browser interface of Prelude SIEM. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and heartbeat views, and has user customization and configurable filters. Prewikka also provides access to external tools such as whois and traceroute.
We can use yum or dnf to install prewikka on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prewikka.
Install prewikka 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 prewikka using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install prewikka
Install prewikka 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 prewikka using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install prewikka
How To Uninstall prewikka on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the prewikka package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove prewikka
prewikka Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/prewikka
/etc/prewikka/conf.d
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/auth.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/external_app.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/logs.conf
/etc/prewikka/conf.d/riskoverview.conf
/etc/prewikka/menu.yml
/etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf
/usr/share/doc/prewikka
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/prewikka/README
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka
/usr/share/licenses/prewikka/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/prewikka.mo
/usr/share/prewikka
/usr/share/prewikka/prewikka.wsgi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prewikka on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.