How to Install and Uninstall snort Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "snort" package

This guide let you learn how to install snort on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "snort" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall snort on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                snort
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the snort package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: snort
Version: 2.9.7.0-5
Installed-Size: 1920
Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: snort-common (<< 2.0.2-3)
Depends: snort-common-libraries (>= 2.9.7.0-5), snort-rules-default (>= 2.9.7.0-5), snort-common (>= 2.9.7.0-5), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, rsyslog | system-log-daemon, logrotate, net-tools, libc6 (>= 2.14), libdaq2, libdumbnet1 (>= 1.8), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.0.0), libpcre3 (>= 1:8.35), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Pre-Depends: adduser (>= 3.11)
Recommends: iproute2
Suggests: snort-doc
Conflicts: snort-mysql, snort-pgsql
Description: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
Description-md5: 7c97bedaa77cf5f9a17ae772993f82ac
Homepage: http://www.snort.org/
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/snort/snort_2.9.7.0-5_amd64.deb
Size: 845204
MD5sum: d1e7ea0178b7e48ec3e4bdc03e919704
SHA256: cb90622df4f8268b9bdfc9dca75b5ef46dbc87ecabd1d17acfcd954bdbbf66dc