How To Install libbroccoli5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbroccoli5 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libbroccoli5
libbroccoli5 is:
Broccoli is the “Bro client communications library”. It allows you to create client sensors for the Bro intrusion detection system. Broccoli can speak a good subset of the Bro communication protocol, in particular, it can receive Bro IDs, send and receive Bro events, and send and receive event requests to/from peering Bros. You can currently create and receive values of pure types like integers, counters, timestamps, IP addresses, port numbers, booleans, and strings.
There are three methods to install libbroccoli5 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 libbroccoli5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbroccoli5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbroccoli5
Install libbroccoli5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbroccoli5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbroccoli5
Install libbroccoli5 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 libbroccoli5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbroccoli5
How To Uninstall libbroccoli5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libbroccoli5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbroccoli5
Uninstall libbroccoli5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbroccoli5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbroccoli5
Remove libbroccoli5 Configurations and Data
To remove libbroccoli5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbroccoli5
Remove libbroccoli5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbroccoli5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbroccoli5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbroccoli5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
