How To Install prelude-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 22.04. 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prelude-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.