How To Install aide-xen on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen on Kali Linux. aide-xen is Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - transitional package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen on Kali Linux.

What is aide-xen

aide-xen is:

AIDE is an intrusion detection system that detects changes to files on the local system. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (md5, sha1, rmd160, tiger, haval, etc.) that are used to check the integrity of the file. More algorithms can be added with relative ease. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies.

This is a transitional package to allow the seamless replacement of the aide-xen package with the normal aide package. The reason for aide-xen does not seem to exist any more. If you have difficulties with running aide on XEN-enabled systems in Dom0 or DomU, please file a bug.

There are three methods to install aide-xen 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 aide-xen Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install aide-xen using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aide-xen

Install aide-xen Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aide-xen using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aide-xen

Install aide-xen 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install aide-xen using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aide-xen

How To Uninstall aide-xen on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the aide-xen package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aide-xen

Uninstall aide-xen And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aide-xen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aide-xen

Remove aide-xen Configurations and Data

To remove aide-xen configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aide-xen

Remove aide-xen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove aide-xen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aide-xen

Dependencies

aide-xen have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-xen package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.