How To Install nbtscan on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nbtscan on CentOS 8.
What is nbtscan
NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends a NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form.
We can use yum or dnf to install nbtscan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nbtscan.
Install nbtscan 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 nbtscan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nbtscan
Install nbtscan 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 nbtscan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nbtscan
How To Uninstall nbtscan on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nbtscan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nbtscan
nbtscan Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/nbtscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/0e02e707ac55ce0bdf7b4e8270eb8832167e23
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nbtscan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.