How To Install httpry on CentOS 8

httpry is A specialized packet sniffer designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install httpry on CentOS 8.

What is httpry

httpry is a specialized packet sniffer designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It is not intended to perform analysis itself, but to capture, parse, and log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-time displaying the traffic as it is parsed, or as a daemon process that logs to an output file. It is written to be as lightweight and flexible as possible, so that it can be easily adaptable to different applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install httpry on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install httpry.

Install httpry on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install httpry using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install httpry

Install httpry on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install httpry using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install httpry

How To Uninstall httpry on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the httpry package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove httpry

httpry Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/097eff1d77026ea5410389fa70107ebf3fc6f7
/usr/sbin/httpry
/usr/share/doc/httpry
/usr/share/doc/httpry/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/httpry/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/httpry/README
/usr/share/doc/httpry/format-string
/usr/share/doc/httpry/method-string
/usr/share/doc/httpry/perl-tools
/usr/share/man/man1/httpry.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install httpry on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.