How To Install python-prelude on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prelude on Debian 9.

What is python-prelude

python-prelude is:

Prelude is a Universal “Security Information Management” (SIM) system. Its goals are performance and modularity. It is divided in two main parts :

• the Prelude sensors, responsible for generating alerts, such as snort sensor, featuring a signature engine, plugins for protocol analysis, and intrusion detection plugins, and the Prelude log monitoring lackey.
• the Prelude report server, collecting data from Prelude sensors, and generating user-readable reports.

This package contains the Python bindings for Prelude.

There are three methods to install python-prelude 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 python-prelude Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-prelude using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-prelude

Install python-prelude Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-prelude using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-prelude

Install python-prelude 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 python-prelude using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-prelude

How To Uninstall python-prelude on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-prelude package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-prelude

Uninstall python-prelude And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-prelude and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-prelude

Remove python-prelude Configurations and Data

To remove python-prelude configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-prelude

Remove python-prelude configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-prelude configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-prelude

Dependencies

python-prelude have the following dependencies:

• python
• python
• python

References

• python-prelude website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-prelude package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.