Quick Evaluation on Ubuntu

If you want to quickly evaluate Security Onion on your preferred flavor of Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit (not using our ISO image), follow these steps:

  • First, check the Hardware Requirements page.

  • Download the ISO image for your preferred flavor of Ubuntu 16.04, verify the ISO image, and boot from it.

  • Follow the prompts in the installer. When prompted to encrypt home folder or encrypt partition option, DO NOT enable this feature. When asked about automatic updates, DO NOT enable automatic updates.

  • Reboot into your new installation.

  • Login using the username/password you specified during installation.

  • Verify that you have Internet connectivity. If necessary, configure your proxy settings.

  • Log back in (using ssh -X if you’re installing on Ubuntu Server or a headless distro).

  • Configure MySQL not to prompt for root password (Setup will generate a random password later):

echo "debconf debconf/frontend select noninteractive" | sudo debconf-set-selections

  • Clean apt list repository:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

  • Update package list:

sudo apt-get update

  • Install software-properties-common if necessary:

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common

  • Add the Security Onion stable repository:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:securityonion/stable

  • Update package list:

sudo apt-get update

  • Install the securityonion-all metapackage:

sudo apt-get -y install securityonion-all syslog-ng-core

  • Run the Setup wizard (if you’re using Ubuntu Server with no GUI and are doing this over SSH, you will need to forward X for this to work):

sudo sosetup