How To Install yara on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is yara
yara is:
YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA, it is possible to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples of those families. Each description consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determines its logic.
Complex and powerful rules can be created by using binary strings with wild-cards, case-insensitive text strings, special operators, regular expressions and many other features.
There are three methods to install yara on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yara Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yara using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yara
Install yara Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yara using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yara
Install yara 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 yara using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yara
How To Uninstall yara on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the yara package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yara
Uninstall yara And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yara and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yara
Remove yara Configurations and Data
To remove yara configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yara
Remove yara configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yara configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yara
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
