How To Install grr-client-templates on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grr-client-templates on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is grr-client-templates
grr-client-templates is:
GRR Rapid Response is an incident response framework focused on remote live forensics. It consists of an agent (client) that is installed on target systems, and server infrastructure that can manage and talk to the agent.
This package contains pre-built components which are used to build Linux, Windows, and MacOSX client installers and which cannot currently built from source on a Debian system.
There are three methods to install grr-client-templates on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install grr-client-templates Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grr-client-templates using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grr-client-templates
Install grr-client-templates Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grr-client-templates using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grr-client-templates
Install grr-client-templates 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 grr-client-templates using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grr-client-templates
How To Uninstall grr-client-templates on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the grr-client-templates package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grr-client-templates
Uninstall grr-client-templates And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grr-client-templates and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grr-client-templates
Remove grr-client-templates Configurations and Data
To remove grr-client-templates configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grr-client-templates
Remove grr-client-templates configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grr-client-templates configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grr-client-templates
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grr-client-templates package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
