How To Install prelude-lml-rules on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml-rules
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is prelude-lml-rules
prelude-lml-rules is:
The Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey (LML) is the host-based sensor program part of the Prelude SIEM suite. It can act as a centralized log collector for local or remote systems, or as a simple log analyzer (such as swatch). It can run as a network server listening on a syslog port or analyze log files. It supports logfiles in the BSD syslog format and is able to analyze any logfile by using the PCRE library. It can apply logfile-specific analysis through plugins such as PAX. It can send an alert to the Prelude Manager when a suspicious log entry is detected.
This package contains all rules (or signatures) for Prelude LML.
There are three methods to install prelude-lml-rules
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 prelude-lml-rules Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml-rules
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-lml-rules
Install prelude-lml-rules Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-lml-rules
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-lml-rules
Install prelude-lml-rules 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 prelude-lml-rules
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-lml-rules
How To Uninstall prelude-lml-rules on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the prelude-lml-rules
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-lml-rules
Uninstall prelude-lml-rules And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-lml-rules
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-lml-rules
Remove prelude-lml-rules Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-lml-rules
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-lml-rules
Remove prelude-lml-rules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-lml-rules
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-lml-rules
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-lml-rules
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.