Debian Package Installation

.. _install-binary-debian:

Debian Package Installation ###########################

Suricata is available in the official Debian repositories for Debian 9 (stretch) and later versions.

.. note:: The following instructions require sudo to be installed.

In Debian 9 (stretch) and later do::

sudo apt-get install suricata

In the "stable" version of Debian, Suricata is usually not available in the latest version. A more recent version is often available from Debian backports, if it can be built there.

To use backports, the backports repository for the current stable distribution needs to be added to the system-wide sources list. For Debian 10 (buster), for instance, run the following as root::

echo "deb http://http.debian.net/debian buster-backports main" > \
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt-get update
apt-get install suricata -t buster-backports

After Installation

After installing you can proceed to the :ref:Basic setup.