Suricata 2.0.9 Available Now, Install on 12.04 Precise / 14.04 Trusty / 15.04 Vivid / 15.10 Wily via PPA

Suricata 2.0.9 Available Now, Install on 12.04 Precise / 14.04 Trusty / 15.04 Vivid / 15.10 Wily via PPA

Suricata is an open source, multi-platform and totally free network intrusion prevention and detection engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) and its supporting vendors.

The IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded

Suricata’s IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.

It is highly scalable


You should try Suricata because its highly scalable, it recognizes most common protocols, and it can identify thousands of file types, check MD5 checksums, and extract files from archives.

Ubuntu Installation - Personal Package Archives (PPA)

The latest Suricata git/dev, stable and beta packages are available for Ubuntu in a Ubuntu PPA (launchpad).
The Suricata packages are available for the official and supported Ubuntu OS versions both in 32bit and 64bit:

• 12.04 Precise
• 14.04 Trusty
• 15.04 Vivid
• 15.10 Wily

https://launchpad.net/~oisf/+archive/suricata-stable

Installation
To setup to install the latest stable Suricata, do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oisf/suricata-stable
sudo apt-get update

Then you can install the latest stable Suricata with:

sudo apt-get install suricata 

or for the Suricata package with build in (enabled) debugging!

sudo apt-get install suricata-dbg

After installation, continue with the Basic Setup.

Upgrading
Upgrading is simple:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Remove
To remove Suricata from your system:

sudo apt-get remove suricata

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.