This documentation is no longer maintained and exists for historical purposes. The current documentation is located at http://suricata.readthedocs.io/.
Suricata Installation¶
For basic Suricata installation instructions, please refer to the installation chapter in the Suricata User Guide.
The following installation guides may be of use if the basic installation instructions don't work for you, or you have a special use case.
On this page you can find installation-guides for several operating systems. Please, feel free to add information.
Supported Platforms¶
Ubuntu Installation - Personal Package Archives (PPA) (using a package)
Ubuntu Installation (compilation)
CentOS Installation - CentOS 7, 6 and Fedora
RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 from Source
FreeBSD 8, 9 and 10 Installation
Mac OS X 10.11 w/Homebrew Installation - Should work with 10.10 as well.
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Windows
or
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/attachments/download/1175/SuricataWinInstallationGuide_v1.4.3.pdf
Advanced Installation Guides¶
Compile as Position-Independent Executables (PIE)
Installation from GIT (Ubuntu + OpenBSD)
Installation from GIT with PCRE-JIT
Installation from GIT with luajit
Installation from GIT with PF_RING on Ubuntu server LTS
Installation from GIT with PF_RING on Ubuntu server 12.04.
Installation of Suricata stable with PF RING (STABLE) on Ubuntu server 12.04
CentOS 6.4 Installation (with unix socket, geoip, profiling and MD5 features)
Distributions containing Suricata¶
There are also several Distributions Containing Suricata.
Outdated/Unsupported Installation Guides¶
The following installation guides are considered outdated but may provide useful information to those who need to build on older systems.
CentOS 5 Installation - CentOS 5/6 Installation Guide
Mac OS X (10.6.x) Installation (works for 10.5.8 as well)
Installation with CUDA and PFRING on Scientific Linux 6
Installation with CUDA on Scientific Linux 6
Setup¶
After the installation, continue with the Basic Setup