How To Install bro on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install bro on Debian 9. bro is passive network traffic analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bro on Debian 9.

What is bro

bro is:

Bro is primarily a security monitor that inspects all traffic on a link in depth for signs of suspicious activity. More generally, however, Bro supports a wide range of traffic analysis tasks even outside of the security domain, including performance measurements and helping with trouble-shooting.

Bro comes with built-in functionality for a range of analysis and detection tasks, including detecting malware by interfacing to external registries, reporting vulnerable versions of software seen on the network, identifying popular web applications, detecting SSH brute-forcing, validating SSL certificate chains, among others.

There are three methods to install bro 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 bro Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bro

Install bro Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bro using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bro

Install bro 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 bro using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bro

How To Uninstall bro on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove bro

Uninstall bro And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bro and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bro

Remove bro Configurations and Data

To remove bro configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bro

Remove bro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bro

Dependencies

bro have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bro package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.