Installing Snort 3 on Kali (Debian)

This section will describe the steps involved in preparing the system and setting up Snort on the Kali (Debian-based) system. The default package manager on Kali (Debian) is apt. Advanced Package Tool (APT) is the primary package manager for Debian and all related distros, including Kali. We will be using apt to prepare the system and install all dependencies.

Preparing the system

After the Kali system is installed, we will use apt to get the system up to date:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

After the update and upgrade of the Kali system, the system version is as follows:

uname -r
6.5.0-kali3-amd64

The uname command is used to print out system information.

This is followed by the installation of the required packages and dependencies, which is described in the next section.

Installing dependencies

All the required packages are installed using the apt command, as follows:

sudo apt install build-essential libpcap-dev...