How To Install aide on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on CentOS 7. aide is Intrusion detection environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aide.

Install aide on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install aide using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aide

Install aide on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install aide using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aide

How To Uninstall aide on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove aide

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.