How To Install prelude-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is prelude-utils
prelude-utils 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 Prelude shared library utils.
There are three methods to install prelude-utils 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-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prelude-utils
Install prelude-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prelude-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prelude-utils
Install prelude-utils 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-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prelude-utils
How To Uninstall prelude-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the prelude-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prelude-utils
Uninstall prelude-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prelude-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prelude-utils
Remove prelude-utils Configurations and Data
To remove prelude-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prelude-utils
Remove prelude-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prelude-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prelude-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
