How to Install and Uninstall snort-rules-default Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "snort-rules-default" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install snort-rules-default on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                snort-rules-default
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "snort-rules-default" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall snort-rules-default on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                snort-rules-default
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the snort-rules-default package on Kali Linux

Package: snort-rules-default
Source: snort
Version: 3.1.78.0-0kali1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Kali Developers
Installed-Size: 1683
Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.80) | debconf-2.0, adduser (>= 3.11)
Recommends: oinkmaster
Suggests: snort (>= 2.2.0) | snort-pgsql (>= 2.2.0) | snort-mysql (>= 2.2.0)
Provides: snort-rules
Homepage: http://www.snort.org/snort-rules/
Priority: optional
Section: net
Filename: pool/main/s/snort/snort-rules-default_3.1.78.0-0kali1_all.deb
Size: 219036
SHA256: fe923ff90cab1878bb5dd280337b871461d9c5ac4090129f9fc38ce4a845143f
SHA1: d6a09b2b8359bfce72cdf3b0ccaa3f62ccc6bc88
MD5sum: c68b0541066cc71d97197510077b431c
Description: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - ruleset
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 is the Snort default ruleset, which provides a basic set of network
intrusion detection rules developed by the Snort community. They can be
used as a basis for development of additional rules. Users using Snort to
defend networks in production environments are encouraged to update their
local rulesets as described in the included documentation or using the
oinkmaster package.
Description-md5:
Original-Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña