How to Install and Uninstall snort Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: November 23,2024

1. Install "snort" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install snort on Kali Linux


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall snort on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: snort
Version: 3.1.78.0-0kali1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Kali Developers
Installed-Size: 9280
Pre-Depends: adduser (>= 3.11)
Depends: snort-common-libraries (>= 3.1.78.0-0kali1), snort-rules-default (>= 3.1.78.0-0kali1), snort-common (>= 3.1.78.0-0kali1), debconf (>= 0.2.80) | debconf-2.0, rsyslog | system-log-daemon, logrotate, net-tools, libc6 (>= 2.34), libdaq3 (>= 3.0.12), libdumbnet1 (>= 1.8), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libhwloc15 (>= 2.10.0), libluajit-5.1-2 (>= 2.0.4+dfsg) | libluajit2-5.1-2 (>= 2.1~), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.5.1), libpcre3, libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: iproute2
Suggests: snort-doc
Conflicts: snort-mysql, snort-pgsql
Replaces: snort-common (<< 2.0.2-3)
Homepage: https://www.snort.org/
Priority: optional
Section: net
Filename: pool/main/s/snort/snort_3.1.78.0-0kali1_amd64.deb
Size: 2061376
SHA256: 5285e853aeadf204ad5093f9fa1966f1b8f7d51ac5b4dde92cee2e1521e9c934
SHA1: 6771ee508bcec4140161129dd950802b0d2a0bc2
MD5sum: a5c56e318244032ededa928734ff6bd8
Description: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a
lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based
logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to
detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer
overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more.
Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to
syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
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This package provides the plain-vanilla version of Snort.
Description-md5:
Original-Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña