Type
Code:
apt-cache show snort-mysql
Quote:
Description: flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [MySQL]
Distribution of Snort with support for logging to a MySQL database.
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Also, from
Code:
apt-cache search -n snort
Quote:
snort-mysql - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [MySQL]
snort-pgsql - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [PostgreSQL]
snort - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
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It's giving you the choice between MySQL support, Postgresql support, and no database support.
From apt-cache show snort:
Quote:
This package provides the plain-vanilla version of Snort and does not
provide database (available in snort-pgsql and snort-mysql) support.
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