How To Install argus on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install argus on Fedora 34.
What is argus
Argus (Audit Record Generation and Utilization System) is an IP network transaction audit tool. The data generated by argus can be used for a wide range of tasks such as network operations, security and performance management.
We can use yum or dnf to install argus on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install argus.
Install argus 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 argus using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install argus
Install argus 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 argus using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install argus
How To Uninstall argus on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the argus package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove argus
argus Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/argus.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/argus
/usr/bin/argus-extip
/usr/bin/argus-lsof
/usr/bin/argus-snmp
/usr/bin/argus-vmstat
/usr/bin/argusbug
/usr/bin/argusclientbug
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/ff2567ea579515fde4ac7bf3dc2661e3bf3df2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/argus.service
/usr/sbin/argus
/usr/share/doc/argus
/usr/share/doc/argus/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/argus/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/argus/README
/usr/share/doc/argus/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/argus/argusbug
/usr/share/doc/argus/support
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Archive
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Archive/README.argusarchive
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Archive/argusarchive
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Config
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Config/argus.conf
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Deployment
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Deployment/sample
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/README
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Startup
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Startup/README
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Startup/argus
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Startup/argus.service
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/Startup/com.qosient.argus.plist
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/System
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/System/crontab
/usr/share/doc/argus/support/System/magic
/usr/share/licenses/argus
/usr/share/licenses/argus/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/argus.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/argus.8.gz
/var/lib/argus
/var/lib/argus/archive
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install argus on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
