How To Install vuls on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vuls on Ubuntu.
What is vuls
vuls is:
This is scanner which checks the package inventory against a local copy of the National Vunerabilities Database (NVD) of vulnerabilities according to their CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) indentifiers. The backends supports a couple of OSs (Debian, RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux). Scanning servers over the network is possible.
There are three methods to install vuls on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vuls Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vuls using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vuls
Install vuls Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vuls using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vuls
Install vuls Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vuls using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vuls
How To Uninstall vuls on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vuls package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vuls
Uninstall vuls And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vuls and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vuls
Remove vuls Configurations and Data
To remove vuls configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vuls
Remove vuls configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vuls configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vuls
Dependencies
vuls have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vuls package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.