How To Install pwncat on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwncat on CentOS 8.
What is pwncat
TCP/UDP communication suite for firewall and IDS/IPS evasion, bind and reverse shell, self-injecting shell and port forwarding magic. pwncat is fully scriptable with Python (PSE).
We can use yum or dnf to install pwncat on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwncat.
Install pwncat 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 pwncat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pwncat
Install pwncat 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 pwncat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pwncat
How To Uninstall pwncat on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pwncat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pwncat
pwncat Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pwncat
/usr/share/doc/pwncat
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/css
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/css/mypy.css
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/img
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/img/video01.png
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/img/video02.png
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/pwncat.api.html
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/pwncat.man.html
/usr/share/doc/pwncat/docs/pwncat.type.html
/usr/share/man/man1/pwncat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwncat on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.