How To Install masscan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan on Rocky Linux 8. masscan is This is an Internet-scale port scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is masscan

This is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine. It is a faster port scan that produces results similar to nmap, the most famous port scanner. Internally, it operates more like scanrand, unicornscan, and ZMap, using asynchronous transmission.

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

Install masscan on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install masscan

Install masscan on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install masscan

How To Uninstall masscan on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove masscan

masscan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/masscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/3214462e39f5850860518164d4e2ba6202e844
/usr/share/doc/masscan
/usr/share/doc/masscan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/masscan/VULNINFO.md
/usr/share/licenses/masscan
/usr/share/licenses/masscan/LICENSE

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.