How To Install packETH on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install packETH.
Install packETH 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 packETH using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install packETH
Install packETH 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 packETH using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install packETH
How To Uninstall packETH on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the packETH package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove packETH
packETH Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.