How To Install rkhunter on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rkhunter on Fedora 34.
What is rkhunter
Rootkit Hunter (RKH) is an easy-to-use tool which checks computers running UNIX (clones) for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools.
We can use yum or dnf to install rkhunter on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rkhunter.
Install rkhunter 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 rkhunter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rkhunter
Install rkhunter 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 rkhunter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rkhunter
How To Uninstall rkhunter on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rkhunter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rkhunter
rkhunter Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/cron.daily/rkhunter
/etc/logrotate.d/rkhunter
/etc/rkhunter.conf
/etc/sysconfig/rkhunter
/usr/bin/rkhunter
/usr/share/doc/rkhunter
/usr/share/doc/rkhunter/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/rkhunter/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rkhunter/README
/usr/share/man/man8/rkhunter.8.gz
/usr/share/rkhunter
/usr/share/rkhunter/scripts
/usr/share/rkhunter/scripts/check_modules.pl
/var/lib/rkhunter
/var/lib/rkhunter/db
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/backdoorports.dat
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n/cn
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/i18n/en
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/mirrors.dat
/var/lib/rkhunter/db/programs_bad.dat
/var/log/rkhunter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rkhunter on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
