Complete Guide: Installing piwi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2025

1. Install "piwi" package

Please follow the guidance below to install piwi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall piwi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                piwi
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the piwi package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: piwi
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 1068
Maintainer: Mickael Profeta
Architecture: all
Version: 0.8+20041206-3
Depends: perl, apache | apache-ssl | apache-perl | httpd, mysql-client | postgresql-client, libapache-dbi-perl, libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-pg-perl, libdate-calc-perl
Suggests: libgd-gd2-perl, geoip-bin
Filename: pool/universe/p/piwi/piwi_0.8+20041206-3_all.deb
Size: 157732
MD5sum: 6ab4698cc81cb8c3279b7084aedd8dad
SHA1: 4053e112a14738056b86857c6561dcba5532781a
SHA256: cf03d6013b66c33c4de0c86ac549238080757f915141e9cc629a7ea4aa00e848
Description-en: P(erl|relude) IDS Web Interface - A frontend to your Prelude database
Providing a complete web front-end for the Prelude-Intrusion Detection System
with features like :
- Alert listing, sorting, masking
- Alert details
- Source centric view
- Alert-type centric view
- Source informations (IP, MAC, OS via NMAP, known open services)
Description-md5: 30be9c3cee5be6b013f2e78b530dc70b
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu