How To Install yasat on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasat
on Debian 11.
What is yasat
yasat is:
YASAT (Yet Another Stupid Audit Tool) goal is to be as simple as possible with minimum binary dependencies (only sed, grep and cut). Second goal is to document each test with maximum information and links to official documentation. It do many tests for checking security configuration issue or others good practice. It checks many software configurations like: Apache, Bind DNS, CUPS, PHP, kernel configuration, MySQL, network configuration, openvpn, Packages update, samba, snmpd, squid, syslog, tomcat, user accounting, vsftpd, xinetd.
There are three methods to install yasat
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yasat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yasat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yasat
Install yasat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yasat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yasat
Install yasat 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 yasat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yasat
How To Uninstall yasat on Debian 11
To uninstall only the yasat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yasat
Uninstall yasat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yasat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yasat
Remove yasat Configurations and Data
To remove yasat
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yasat
Remove yasat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yasat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yasat
Dependencies
yasat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasat
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.