How To Install libyara3 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libyara3
on Debian 9.
What is libyara3
libyara3 is:
YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA, it is possible to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples of those families. Each description consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determines its logic.
Complex and powerful rules can be created by using binary strings with wild-cards, case-insensitive text strings, special operators, regular expressions and many other features.
This package provides a shared library.
There are three methods to install libyara3
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libyara3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libyara3
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libyara3
Install libyara3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libyara3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libyara3
Install libyara3 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libyara3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libyara3
How To Uninstall libyara3 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libyara3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libyara3
Uninstall libyara3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libyara3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libyara3
Remove libyara3 Configurations and Data
To remove libyara3
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libyara3
Remove libyara3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libyara3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libyara3
Dependencies
libyara3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libyara3
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.