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