How To Install packETH on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on Rocky Linux 8. packETH is A GUI packet generator tool

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install packETH.

Install packETH 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 packETH using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install packETH

Install packETH 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 packETH using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install packETH

How To Uninstall packETH on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove packETH

packETH Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/packETH
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/fa62a35f90ec3899f639e15b6f1124508d7008
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.