[Oisf-users] Properly installing Suricata-Update on latest version of Suricata

[Jason Ish]

On 2019-02-01 8:32 a.m., 419telegraph298 at protonmail.com wrote:
> Hello all -
> 
> Apologies if this question is obvious, I've been reading over the manual
> for suricata-update and do not have an expert linux background -
> 
> I just did a fresh install of the latest Suricata on a Raspberry pi and
> ran "pip install --upgrade suricata-update" :
> 
> /Collecting suricata-update///
> 
> /Collecting pyyaml (from suricata-update)///
> 
> /Installing collected packages: pyyaml, suricata-update///
> 
> /Successfully installed pyyaml-3.13 suricata-update-1.0.3/
> 
> 
> I cannot get suricata-update to run in the terminal, however, and
> no /var/lib/suricata/update directory was created... 

Whats the error you are getting? Are you running it as root or a
non-root user?  The permission setup is create a setup where you can run
it as a non-root user which is ideal

Jason