Requirements

This page lists the requirements for setting up SPADE on various operating systems. In all cases, the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK 21) is required to compile SPADE. This can be downloaded from OpenJDK. Installation instructions for different platforms are given below.

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Linux

Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 24.04, the JDK can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-21-jdk

In addition to the JDK, building SPADE requires that you have Git installed on your system. It is used to download the source files for compilation. You will also need autoconf and automake to drive the build, Linux Audit, FUSE, lsof, and uthash. On Ubuntu, all of these can be installed via the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y auditd autoconf automake bison clang cmake curl flex fuse git ifupdown libaudit-dev libfuse-dev linux-headers-`uname -r` lsof maven pkg-config unzip uthash-dev wget

Fedora

For Fedora 43, use the following commands to install the JDK:

sudo dnf install -y java-21-openjdk-devel

Other dependencies can be installed with:

sudo dnf install -y audit audispd-plugins autoconf automake bison clang cmake curl flex fuse-devel fuse-libs git iptables kernel-devel-`uname -r` lsof maven unzip uthash-devel wget

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macOS

For macOS, the following commands can be used to install the JDK (if no other JDK already present):

# For Apple silicon
curl -L -o OpenJDK21U-jdk_aarch64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz 'https://github.com/adoptium/temurin21-binaries/releases/download/jdk-21.0.11+10/OpenJDK21U-jdk_aarch64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz'
tar -zxvf OpenJDK21U-jdk_aarch64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz
sudo mv jdk-21.0.11+10 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

# For Intel
curl -L -o OpenJDK21U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz 'https://github.com/adoptium/temurin21-binaries/releases/download/jdk-21.0.11+10/OpenJDK21U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz'
tar -zxvf OpenJDK21U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_21.0.11_10.tar.gz
sudo mv jdk-21.0.11+10 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/

If you are using macOS, you will need Git to retrieve the SPADE source files, and autoconf and automake to drive the build.

Fuse4X is required, unless you already have MacFUSE installed.

Using MacPorts, you can install the required packages with the following command:

sudo port install autoconf automake git fuse4x pkgconfig

Alternatively, you can use Brew to install the required package with:

brew install autoconf automake git maven pkgconfig Caskroom/cask/osxfuse

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Windows

To use the ProcMon reporter for Windows, you will need to download and install Process Monitor.

WSL

On Windows, SPADE can be installed using WSL. Select the Ubuntu distribution. Then install the JDK with:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-21-jdk

Building SPADE also requires Git to be installed. It is used to download the source files for compilation. Further, uthash is also needed. In an Ubuntu shell, these can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install git maven pkg-config uthash-dev

Cygwin

Alternatively, SPADE can be installed using Cygwin. Detailed instructions on setting up Cygwin can be found on its homepage. The following Cygwin packages are required:

• gcc (under the Devel category)
• gcc-core (under the Devel category)
• make (under the Devel category)
• nano (under the Editors category)
• git (under the Devel category)
• tar (under the Base category)
• unzip (under the Archive category)
• wget (under the Web category)

Download and install maven using Cygwin:

# Open Cygwin bash

# Go to user home.
cd "${HOME}"

# Download official maven version.
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.9.15/binaries/apache-maven-3.9.15-bin.zip

# Unzip. The directory apache-maven-3.9.15 will be created in the current directory.
unzip apache-maven-3.9.15-bin.zip

# Update Cygwin bash PATH to add maven.
echo 'export PATH="${HOME}/apache-maven-3.9.15/bin:${PATH}"' >> ${HOME}/.bash_profile

# Restart Cygwin bash

# Check if mvn is available
which mvn

# For more detailed instructions, please see Maven's official page: https://maven.apache.org/install.html.