How To Install libprelude on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude on CentOS 7.
What is libprelude
Libprelude is a collection of generic functions providing communication between all Sensors, like IDS (Intrusion Detection System), and the Prelude Manager. It provides a convenient interface for sending and receiving IDMEF (Information and Event Message Exchange Format) alerts to Prelude Manager with transparent SSL, fail-over and replication support, asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking at the command-line, the configuration line, or wide configuration, available from the Manager), and a generic plugin API. It allows you to easily turn your favorite security program into a Prelude sensor.
We can use yum or dnf to install libprelude on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libprelude.
Install libprelude on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libprelude using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libprelude
Install libprelude 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libprelude using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libprelude
How To Uninstall libprelude on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libprelude package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libprelude
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.