How to Install and Uninstall auditd Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "auditd" package

This is a short guide on how to install auditd on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall auditd on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                auditd
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the auditd package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: auditd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.0-2ubuntu2
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Source: audit
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 677
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), mawk | gawk, libaudit1 (>= 1:3.0), libauparse0 (>= 1:2.8), libc6 (>= 2.33), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9)
Suggests: audispd-plugins
Breaks: audispd-plugins (<< 1:3.0~)
Filename: pool/main/a/audit/auditd_3.0-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 191952
MD5sum: c6b68cb1a01ecbd5d1fece79f69e6f94
SHA1: b78777a7f155db4b1c8dec71a342ca89641ac13a
SHA256: 3035644177ac38ce64ef0ed94c8d98b689c82b17c93404f634821caa54626c55
SHA512: 6d5d496acc538936d34f9fa7610c6cb6adcd760664723bd64add8b0a565d0f36b1b08ff8aacb7c9ff484895713b9cb529ba62581a93aa9170a0abe7d53260d6e
Homepage: https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/
Description-en: User space tools for security auditing
The audit package contains the user space utilities for
storing and searching the audit records generated by
the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
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Also contains the audit dispatcher "audisp".
Description-md5: 77aaff86394a1a8da0659fa99413f455