How To Install hashid on CentOS 8

hashid is A tool to identify different types of hashes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hashid on CentOS 8.

What is hashid

Identify the different types of hashes used to encrypt data and especially passwords. hashID is a tool which supports the identification of over 220 unique hash types using regular expressions. It is able to identify a single hash, parse a file or read multiple files in a directory and identify the hashes within them.

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

Install hashid on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install hashid

Install hashid on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install hashid

How To Uninstall hashid on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove hashid

hashid Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/hashid
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/hashid.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/hashid.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashID-3.1.4-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/hashid.py
/usr/share/doc/hashid
/usr/share/doc/hashid/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/hashid/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/hashid
/usr/share/licenses/hashid/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man7/hashid.7.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hashid on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.