How To Install prelude-manager on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager on Debian 12.
What is prelude-manager
prelude-manager is:
Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude SIEM suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, let the operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts in a database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus providing centralized logging and analysis. The IDMEF standard is used for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for alert relaying and logging.
This package provides the Prelude Manager, which is a high availability server that accepts secured connections from distributed sensors or other managers and saves received events to a media specified by the user (database, log files, mail, etc).
There are three methods to install prelude-manager on Debian 12. 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-manager 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-manager using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-manager
Install prelude-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-manager using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-manager
Install prelude-manager 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 prelude-manager using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-manager
How To Uninstall prelude-manager on Debian 12
To uninstall only the prelude-manager package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-manager
Uninstall prelude-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-manager
Remove prelude-manager Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-manager configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-manager
Remove prelude-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-manager
Dependencies
prelude-manager have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- libc6
- libgnutls30
- libmaxminddb0
- libprelude28
- libpreludedb7
- libsnmp40
- libxml2
- debconf
- ucf
- dbconfig-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-manager package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
