How To Install aide-dynamic on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-dynamic on Kali Linux.

What is aide-dynamic

aide-dynamic 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 a dynamically linked binary and should only be used in exeptional circumstances. To avoid exposure to trojaned libraries, it is advised to use one of the statically linked binaries.

There are three methods to install aide-dynamic on Kali Linux. 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-dynamic 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-dynamic using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aide-dynamic

Install aide-dynamic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aide-dynamic using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aide-dynamic

Install aide-dynamic Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install aide-dynamic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aide-dynamic

How To Uninstall aide-dynamic on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove aide-dynamic

Uninstall aide-dynamic And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aide-dynamic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aide-dynamic

Remove aide-dynamic Configurations and Data

To remove aide-dynamic configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aide-dynamic

Remove aide-dynamic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove aide-dynamic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aide-dynamic

Dependencies

aide-dynamic have the following dependencies:

• libacl1
• libaudit1

References

• aide-dynamic website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-dynamic package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.