How To Install libprelude-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-devel on CentOS 7.
What is libprelude-devel
Libraries and headers you can use to develop Prelude sensors using the Prelude Library. 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-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libprelude-devel.
Install libprelude-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libprelude-devel
Install libprelude-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libprelude-devel
How To Uninstall libprelude-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libprelude-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libprelude-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprelude-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
