MetaPackages¶

Security Onion consists of over 50 packages in a Launchpad PPA. You can install these packages individually or you can install one or more metapackages (groups of packages) depending on what functionality you need.

securityonion-client (about 525MB)

Sguil client, Wireshark, NetworkMiner, etc.
```
sudo apt install securityonion-client
```
securityonion-sensor (about 135MB)

Snort, Suricata, Zeek, netsniff-ng, Sguil agents, etc.
```
sudo apt install securityonion-sensor
```
securityonion-server (about 265MB)

Sguil server, Squert, CapMe, etc.
```
sudo apt install securityonion-server
```
securityonion-elastic (about 5MB)

Scripts and configuration files for the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) and its associated log pipeline including syslog-ng. This package includes so-elastic-download which downloads the Docker images for the Elastic stack. You’ll probably want to install syslog-ng-core explicitly to replace rsyslog.
```
sudo apt install securityonion-elastic syslog-ng-core
```
securityonion-all (about 930MB)

all of the above plus syslog-ng
```
sudo apt install securityonion-all
```
securityonion-iso

all of the above plus bridge-utils, byobu, foremost, pinguybuilder, securityonion-desktop-gnome, securityonion-onionsalt, securityonion-samples-bro, securityonion-samples-markofu, securityonion-samples-mta, securityonion-samples-shellshock, xfsprogs
```
sudo apt install securityonion-iso
```