In this post I’m going to walk you through on how-to install Snort and the Snorby web UI on a freshly installed Debian Wheezy box.
As a first step we’re going to install Snort. Luckily it’s up in the repos, so we’re just going to apt-get it. I’m going to go with the snort-mysql package, as it gives a mysql DB support to snort which is a good thing. So first let’s get a mysql server up and running