[OISF/outreachy] Ubuntu install from git.

[Blithe Brandon]

I saw in the Suricata user guide that jq is installed alongside Suricata.

"sudo apt install suricata jq”

I’ll add it to the Ubuntu Git wiki page.

Blithe


> On Oct 14, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Blithe Brandon <blithe.brandon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’ve updated the Ubuntu_Installation_from_GIT wiki page. The changes were based on errors I received while running the steps on a clean Ubuntu 20 system.
> 
> Some errors appeared to be just warnings and I’ve made note of them, but have not added them to the wiki. I only added steps for those files that were listed as required.
> 
> When I run suricata-verify/run.py, I ‘m receiving an error that I need jq. jq wasn’t listed as on the wiki. I see that it can be installed using apt-get. Is that the expectation? Or is it combined with Suricata?
> 
> Blithe
> 
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2020, at 8:35 PM, Shivani Bhardwaj <sbhardwaj at openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:42 AM Blithe Brandon via Outreachy
>> <outreachy at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I setup an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox, but ran into an issue when I increased its disk size. So I’ll be rebuilding it. When I built it the first time, I used the steps on this wiki page.
>>> 
>>> https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Ubuntu_Installation_from_GIT
>>> 
>>> I noticed some of the steps are not quite right. I’ll document the differences tomorrow when I rebuild my virtual machine. Is anyone working on documentation? How should I go about making changes to the wiki or whom should I give the changes to?
>>> 
>> Please go ahead. You should see an "edit" button if you are logged in.
>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Blithe
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>> Shivani
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