How To Install ssg-nondebian on Debian 12

Learn how to install ssg-nondebian on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ssg-nondebian is SCAP Guides and benchmarks targeting other GNU/Linux OS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-nondebian on Debian 12.

What is ssg-nondebian

ssg-nondebian is:

This package contains all the SCAP guides, benchmarks and remediation files for nondebian operating system targets such as Red-Hat RHEL, SuSE and others. 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.

This package include SCAP guides for:

  • Alibaba Cloud Linux 2
  • Alibaba Cloud Linux 3
  • Anolis OS 8
  • Apple macOS 10.15
  • Fedora
  • openSUSE
  • Oracle Linux 7
  • Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 15
  • UnionTech OS Server 20

There are three methods to install ssg-nondebian on Debian 12. 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-nondebian 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-nondebian using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ssg-nondebian

Install ssg-nondebian Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ssg-nondebian

Install ssg-nondebian 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 ssg-nondebian using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ssg-nondebian

How To Uninstall ssg-nondebian on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ssg-nondebian package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ssg-nondebian

Uninstall ssg-nondebian And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ssg-nondebian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ssg-nondebian

Remove ssg-nondebian Configurations and Data

To remove ssg-nondebian configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ssg-nondebian

Remove ssg-nondebian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ssg-nondebian

Dependencies

ssg-nondebian have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssg-nondebian package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.