How To Install suricata on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install suricata on AlmaLinux 8.
What is suricata
The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. This new Engine supports Multi-threading, Automatic Protocol Detection (IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, TLS, FTP and SMB! ), Gzip Decompression, Fast IP Matching, and GeoIP identification.
We can use yum or dnf to install suricata on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install suricata.
Install suricata on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install suricata using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install suricata
Install suricata on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install suricata using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install suricata
How To Uninstall suricata on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the suricata package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove suricata
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install suricata on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
