How To Install vast on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vast on Kali Linux.
What is vast
vast is:
VAST is a distributed platform for high-performance network forensics and incident response that provides both continuous ingestion of voluminous event streams and interactive query performance. VAST leverages a native implementation of the actor model to scale both intra-machine across available CPU cores, and inter-machine over a cluster of commodity systems.
There are three methods to install vast on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vast Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vast using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vastInstall vast Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vast using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vastInstall vast Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install vast using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vastHow To Uninstall vast on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the vast package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vastUninstall vast And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vast and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vastRemove vast Configurations and Data
To remove vast configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vastRemove vast configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vast configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vastDependencies
vast have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcaf-core0.17
- libcaf-io0.17
- libcaf-openssl0.17
- libfmt7
- libgcc-s1
- libjemalloc2
- libpcap0.8
- libsimdjson5
- libspdlog1-fmt7
- libstdc++6
- libyaml-cpp0.6
- adduser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vast package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
