How To Install snort on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snort on Debian 10.
What is snort
snort 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 the plain-vanilla version of Snort.
There are three methods to install snort on Debian 10. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install snort
Install snort Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install snort using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install snort
Install snort 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 snort using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install snort
How To Uninstall snort on Debian 10
To uninstall only the snort package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove snort
Uninstall snort And Its Dependencies
To uninstall snort and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove snort
Remove snort Configurations and Data
To remove snort configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge snort
Remove snort configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove snort configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snort
Dependencies
snort have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- snort-common-libraries
- snort-rules-default
- snort-common
- debconf
- rsyslog
- logrotate
- net-tools
- libc6
- libdaq2
- libdumbnet1
- liblzma5
- libpcap0.8
- libpcre3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snort package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.