How To Install aide on Fedora 34

aide is Intrusion detection environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aide.

Install aide on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove aide

aide Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/aide.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/aide
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/5a878342c977cb0c12f22e4a744a928a8b75e2
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.