How To Install aide on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide on Debian 9.
What is aide
aide is:
AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies.
This package contains the statically linked binary for “normal” systems.
There are three methods to install aide on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install aide Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aide using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aide
Install aide Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aide using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aide
Install aide Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install aide using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aide
How To Uninstall aide on Debian 9
To uninstall only the aide package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aide
Uninstall aide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aide and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aide
Remove aide Configurations and Data
To remove aide configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aide
Remove aide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aide configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aide
Dependencies
aide have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.