How to install lynis on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux & RHEL

Security tool to audit systems running Linux, macOS, and Unix.

License: GPL Vendor: CISOfy https://cisofy.com/

Availability

Distro	aarch64	noarch	x86_64	Version
RHEL 10	—	—	—
RHEL 9	—	—	—
RHEL 8	—	—	—
RHEL 7	—	—	✓	2.7.5
RHEL 6	—	—	—

Description

Lynis is an security auditing and hardening tool for UNIX derivatives like Linux, BSD and Solaris. It performs an in-depth security scan on the system to detect software and security issues. Besides information related to security, it will also scan for general system information, installed packages, and possible configuration issues. This software is aimed at assisting with automated auditing, configuration management, software patch management, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and malware scanning of UNIX-based systems. Lynis is released as a GPLv3 licensed project and free for everyone to use. Commercial support and plugins are available via CISOfy. See https://cisofy.com for a full description and documentation.

Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Install

lynis on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install lynis

Frequently asked questions

How do I install lynis on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL?

Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then run: sudo dnf -y install lynis (use yum on EL7). The same package works on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS Stream and RHEL.

Which Enterprise Linux versions is lynis available for?

lynis is available for RHEL 7 and the matching AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux releases.

Is lynis compatible with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream?

Yes. The RPM is built for Enterprise Linux and is binary-compatible across all RHEL rebuilds of the same major version, including AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream.