How To Install suricata on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install suricata on CentOS 7. suricata is Intrusion Detection System

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install suricata on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install suricata.

Install suricata on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install suricata using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install suricata

Install suricata on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install suricata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install suricata

How To Uninstall suricata on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.