How To Install packETH on Fedora 34

packETH is A GUI packet generator tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on Fedora 34.

What is packETH

packETH is a Linux GUI tool that is able to send any packet or sequence of packets on the Ethernet. It uses the RAW socket option, so it doesn’t care about ip, routing, etc. It is designed to have all the options available, with all the correct and incorrect values (incorrect means, that user can send wrong parameters like

We can use yum or dnf to install packETH on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install packETH.

Install packETH on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install packETH

Install packETH on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install packETH

How To Uninstall packETH on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove packETH

packETH Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/packETH
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/c4931b90c124d66e11bafcb77cba2da838baeb
/usr/share/applications/packETH.desktop
/usr/share/doc/packETH
/usr/share/doc/packETH/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packETH/README
/usr/share/licenses/packETH
/usr/share/licenses/packETH/COPYING
/usr/share/packeth
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Build.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Gen.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/X.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/donate.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/future.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/interface.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/load.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/preference.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/reset.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save16.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/send.xpm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.