How To Install python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8. python3-yara is Python3 binding for the YARA pattern matching tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `python3-yara`

Python binding for the YARA pattern matching tool. YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determine its logic.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-yara.

Install python3-yara 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 python3-yara using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-yara

Install python3-yara 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 python3-yara using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-yara

How To Uninstall python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the python3-yara package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-yara

python3-yara Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/613933f07198971a1f600ad1eed76fb9ca5a6e
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/yara_python-4.1.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/python3-yara
/usr/share/doc/python3-yara/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/python3-yara
/usr/share/licenses/python3-yara/LICENSE

References

python3-yara website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-yara on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.