How To Install nebula on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nebula on Fedora 34.
What is nebula
Nebula is an intrusion signature generator. It can help securing a network by automatically calculating filter rules from attack traces. In a common setup nebula runs as a daemon and receives attacks from honeypots.
We can use yum or dnf to install nebula on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nebula.
Install nebula 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 nebula using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nebula
Install nebula 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 nebula using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nebula
How To Uninstall nebula on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nebula package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nebula
nebula Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nebula
/usr/bin/nebulaclient
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/ea27a3049b39041b54d13fa42cfc1611edd978
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/94c18e6fb7dda1e93bd065d68852d3b4b112da
/usr/share/doc/nebula
/usr/share/doc/nebula/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nebula/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/nebula
/usr/share/licenses/nebula/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nebula on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
