Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-common on Kali Linux.
What is aide-common
aide-common 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 package contains base and configuration files that are needed to
run the actual binaries.
You will almost certainly want to tweak the configuration file in
/etc/aide/aide.conf or drop your own config snippets into
/etc/aide/aide.conf.d.
There are three methods to install aide-common 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-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install aide-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aide-commonInstall aide-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aide-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aide-commonInstall aide-common 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 aide-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aide-common
How To Uninstall aide-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the aide-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aide-common
Uninstall aide-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aide-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aide-common
Remove aide-common Configurations and Data
To remove aide-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aide-common
Remove aide-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aide-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aide-common
Dependencies
aide-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aide-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
