How to Install and Uninstall yara Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 14,2024

You can also install and uninstall the yara on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "yara" package

This tutorial shows how to install yara on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall yara on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the yara package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: yara
Version: 4.2.3-4
Installed-Size: 82
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libyara9 (>= 4.2.0~)
Description: Pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers
Description-md5: 5bc661c5fe8f0ebddb9615d71f1eb8e3
Multi-Arch: allowed
Homepage: https://virustotal.github.io/yara/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/y/yara/yara_4.2.3-4_amd64.deb
Size: 23560
MD5sum: 3d5c72d1f62be4fef649fe6760d84965
SHA256: 426cd24540e4117964b31ae9391886da306abc27c9e0b57f7388fa8907be85ad