How To Install aide-xen on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen on Ubuntu 20.04. aide-xen is Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary for XEN

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is aide-xen

aide-xen 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 XEN-enabled systems and should be used in Dom0 and DomU.

There are three methods to install aide-xen on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-xen 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-xen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aide-xen

Install aide-xen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install aide-xen

Install aide-xen 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install aide-xen

How To Uninstall aide-xen on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove aide-xen

Uninstall aide-xen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aide-xen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aide-xen

Remove aide-xen Configurations and Data

To remove aide-xen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aide-xen

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.