How To Install snort-common-libraries on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snort-common-libraries on Kali Linux.

What is snort-common-libraries

snort-common-libraries is:

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate “alert” file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.

This package provides libraries used by all the Snort binary packages.

There are three methods to install snort-common-libraries on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install snort-common-libraries Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install snort-common-libraries using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install snort-common-libraries

Install snort-common-libraries Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install snort-common-libraries using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install snort-common-libraries

Install snort-common-libraries Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install snort-common-libraries using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install snort-common-libraries

How To Uninstall snort-common-libraries on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the snort-common-libraries package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove snort-common-libraries

Uninstall snort-common-libraries And Its Dependencies

To uninstall snort-common-libraries and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove snort-common-libraries

Remove snort-common-libraries Configurations and Data

To remove snort-common-libraries configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge snort-common-libraries

Remove snort-common-libraries configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove snort-common-libraries configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snort-common-libraries

Dependencies

snort-common-libraries have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libluajit-5.1-2
• libpcre3
• libssl1.1

References

• snort-common-libraries website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install snort-common-libraries package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.