How To Install fever on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fever on Kali Linux.

What is fever

fever is:

The Fast, Extensible, Versatile Event Router (FEVER) is a tool for fast processing of events from Suricata’s JSON EVE output. What is meant by ‘processing’ is defined by a number of modular components, for example facilitating fast ingestion into a database. Other processors implement collection, aggregation and forwarding of various metadata (e.g. aggregated and raw flows, passive DNS data, etc.) as well as performance metrics.

It is meant to be used in front of (or as a replacement for) general-purpose log processors like Logstash to increase event throughput as observed on sensors that see a lot of traffic.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fever

Install fever Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fever

Install fever 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 fever using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fever

How To Uninstall fever on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fever

Uninstall fever And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fever

Remove fever Configurations and Data

To remove fever configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fever

Remove fever configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fever

Dependencies

fever have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• fever website

Summary

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