How To Install ssg-debian on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-debian
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ssg-debian
ssg-debian is:
This package contains all the SCAP guides, benchmarks and remediation files for Debian Jessie. Remediation files are Shell-based, Ansible-based and Puppet-based depending on the target infrastructure deployment policy.
SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) is a set of standards used in order to automatically manage vulnerabilities and policy compliance evaluation on a complete deployed infrastructure. SSG provides various official policies such as PCI-DSS, NIST SP-800-53 or ANSSI best practices as official policies.
There are three methods to install ssg-debian
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ssg-debian Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ssg-debian
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ssg-debian
Install ssg-debian Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ssg-debian
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ssg-debian
Install ssg-debian 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 ssg-debian
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ssg-debian
How To Uninstall ssg-debian on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ssg-debian
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ssg-debian
Uninstall ssg-debian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ssg-debian
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssg-debian
Remove ssg-debian Configurations and Data
To remove ssg-debian
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ssg-debian
Remove ssg-debian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ssg-debian
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssg-debian
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-debian
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.