How To Install libprelude-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libprelude-dev
libprelude-dev is:
The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing communication between the Prelude SIEM suite components. It provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager with transparent SSL, failover and replication support, asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking at the commandline, 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.
This package contains the development files for Prelude components.
There are three methods to install libprelude-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libprelude-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libprelude-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprelude-dev
Install libprelude-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprelude-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprelude-dev
Install libprelude-dev 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 libprelude-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprelude-dev
How To Uninstall libprelude-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libprelude-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprelude-dev
Uninstall libprelude-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprelude-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprelude-dev
Remove libprelude-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libprelude-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprelude-dev
Remove libprelude-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprelude-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprelude-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.