By impadmin, March 28, 2017 Posted in: Brew Install mac

How To Install aide on Mac using Brew

Package Information:

Name: aide
Use: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker.

It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file(s). Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (see below) that are used to check the integrity of the file. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. It can read databases from older or newer versions. See the manual pages within the distribution for further info.

Installation Steps:

  1. Open Terminal by hitting <command+space>. Type terminal and hit Enter key.
  2. Execute 
    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  3. Install aide using brew 
    brew install aide

aide is ready to use now!