How To Install daq on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daq
on CentOS 7.
What is daq
Snort 2.9 introduces the DAQ, or Data Acquisition library, for packet I/O. The DAQ replaces direct calls to libpcap functions with an abstraction layer that facilitates operation on a variety of hardware and software interfaces without requiring changes to Snort.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install daq
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daq.
Install daq on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install daq
using yum
by running the following command:
Install daq 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.
After updating yum database, We can install daq
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall daq on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the daq
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daq
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.