From: Sascha Steinbiss Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:53:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc/install: refer to buster as Debian stable X-Git-Tag: suricata-6.0.0-beta1~522 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5598ff5bb3fb6260518f93e4df9636e5e9d5a9c5;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git doc/install: refer to buster as Debian stable --- diff --git a/doc/userguide/install.rst b/doc/userguide/install.rst index babf872a62..18b0f4068c 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/install.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/install.rst @@ -127,18 +127,22 @@ To use it:: Debian ^^^^^^ -In Debian 9 (Stretch) do:: +In Debian 9 (stretch) and later do:: - apt-get install suricata + sudo apt-get install suricata -In Debian Jessie Suricata is out of date, but an updated version is in Debian Backports. +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. -As root do:: +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 jessie-backports main" > \ + 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 jessie-backports + apt-get install suricata -t buster-backports Fedora ^^^^^^