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

[Shivani Bhardwaj]

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 4:03 AM <419telegraph298 at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> I made a suricata-update directory and -
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> /usr/local/bin/suricata-update $ 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
>
>
> But still getting:
>
> pi at raspberrypi:/usr/local/bin/suricata-update $ ls -l -t
> total 0
> pi at raspberrypi:/usr/local/bin/suricata-update $ suricata-update
> -bash: suricata-update: command not found
>
Are you creating a directory in /usr/local/bin? I'm afraid that is
incorrect. You should remove that.
First try "pip list" and see if suricata-update is there. Use sudo
here if you used sudo with pip while trying to install
suricata-update.
Could you install mlocate package and run a "locate -b
suricata-update" on your system? It will show you basepaths where
something named suricata-update is available. Whichever out of those
is a binary, likely in some path like path/to/bin/suricata-update
would be your path. Add that to your PATH environment variable to be
able to easily run that in your terminal. (See here
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26047/how-to-correctly-add-a-path-to-path)
Ideally if you install any pip package which does not require root
privileges, you should do, "pip install <package> --user" <- this will
install the package in the path of your current user, However, if you
require root privileges, use "sudo pip install <package>". (Check this
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#user-installs)

Let us know if you face any issues trying to run suricata-update.
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, February 1, 2019 4:34 PM, Jason Ish <ish at unx.ca> wrote:
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> > On 2019-02-01 2:35 p.m., 419telegraph298 at protonmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > sudo: suricata-update: command not found
> >
> > Maybe it was installed somewhere outside of root's path. Can you try
> > /usr/local/bin/suricata-update?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > > On Friday, February 1, 2019 1:23 PM, Jason Ish ish at unx.ca wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
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