How To Install radare2 on CentOS 8
radare2 is The reverse engineering framework
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2 on CentOS 8.
What is radare2
The radare2 is a reverse-engineering framework that is multi-architecture, multi-platform, and highly scriptable. Radare2 provides a hexadecimal editor, wrapped I/O, file system support, debugger support, diffing between two functions or binaries, and code analysis at opcode, basic block, and function levels.
We can use yum or dnf to install radare2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radare2.
Install radare2 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 radare2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install radare2
Install radare2 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 radare2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install radare2
How To Uninstall radare2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the radare2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove radare2
radare2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/r2
/usr/bin/r2agent
/usr/bin/r2pm
/usr/bin/rabin2
/usr/bin/radare2
/usr/bin/radiff2
/usr/bin/rafind2
/usr/bin/ragg2
/usr/bin/rahash2
/usr/bin/rarun2
/usr/bin/rasign2
/usr/bin/rasm2
/usr/bin/rax2
/usr/bin/rvc2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/a2f662af34d276db5ecb3875655d378ac61e70
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/19593eb8599ac4134b48f2e279568ef46ccf7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/1053a8eec14043df355e5c50c248edd6fc52cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/b58fc3fc350a5d0ff74fd7833a54c2efb8b214
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/24ca2b8b65add8c3b1d04a7af5b344bd32e5f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/a927c13bb5a74103f4856858e4edaf410b89fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/5cc64ff855abbeee509a486c8085d032132561
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/cd04c4dd6bc702ff3f9078d2ab678d0b7c8194
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/ffa5891142bf4980c249a3856d2e143d61418d
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/d77584eb9816917f20ce117f8de4c714658fd3
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/46eaa23ab5ef9a540b7829ec02e69c81881e17
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/usr/lib/.build-id/37/4f03d3804c0c5c4ae7dec9806d89c1e144c408
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/usr/lib/.build-id/39/19aa188f6691a7b8d34a1c9ea144d75a6773dd
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/usr/lib/.build-id/50/b41dfccb18192d066e2a875d47ac17d97c8565
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/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/4fb2db9d1d57e4e702cd946984671f1e584700
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/6f15e2a11bd475b94a7804807cff28092181a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/0eeddbedb3e5ad022c0a960a1cf4e5920b4809
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/74ace0f402a4f8f3623d7a1c0ec040f0c922c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/5c430788abfe3a2acfc425dad51da19ddeea5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/de52453119e9815674ddc859e92eb724931408
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/0511ebdc02356e42127484d552c7a5acc88bf2
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/b96a8e12a3b3e5d6d17547d384f0936080984e
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/0ab60d4be067e210d0557c7c1f5918d96438f2
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/usr/lib/.build-id/84/f25db5036643f3233b01b3a61051aab284077c
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/usr/lib/.build-id/88/eb255a7432da1dafb57bce23204fba0181fcef
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/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/64dbf3233c70dc21f05b853ed22fbe1261e234
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/usr/lib/.build-id/97/959095ba42085ad46ca4372ea256b8705b5071
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/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/63b276ccdae6ebe86ee02ce76918ecc784eaa7
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/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/22844494ddac681df36d93849c2e76c61c80f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/93cdb9ff1a4c3879461d7d5eb8a1e7e6aa9451
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/6ca14087354b6cd4814ef5b51f30352bdb9d6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/a1cfef50fa32861925a3190bebbde8f664395b
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/d4b73653684b9bcef06f524776ba25593cfda0
/usr/lib64/libr_anal.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_asm.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_bin.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_bp.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_config.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_cons.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_core.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_crypto.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_debug.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_egg.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_flag.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_fs.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_hash.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_io.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_lang.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_magic.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_main.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_parse.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_reg.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_search.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_socket.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_syscall.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/libr_util.so.5.3.1
/usr/lib64/radare2
/usr/lib64/radare2/5.3.1
/usr/share/doc/radare2
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D/3D-logo.r2
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D/3D-pyramid.r2
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D/3D-square.r2
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/radare2/3D/pyramid
/usr/share/doc/radare2/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/DEVELOPERS.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/README.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/avr.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/brainfuck.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/calling-conventions.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/debug.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/esil.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/fortunes.tips
/usr/share/doc/radare2/gdb.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/gprobe.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/intro.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/io.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/node.js
/usr/share/doc/radare2/node.js/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/radare2/node.js/README.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/node.js/index.js
/usr/share/doc/radare2/node.js/package.json
/usr/share/doc/radare2/pdb
/usr/share/doc/radare2/pdb/index.js
/usr/share/doc/radare2/pdb/package.json
/usr/share/doc/radare2/pdb/pdb_usage.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/rap.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/sandbox
/usr/share/doc/radare2/sandbox/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/radare2/sandbox/README.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/sandbox/rabin2.sb
/usr/share/doc/radare2/sandbox/radare2.sb
/usr/share/doc/radare2/siol.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/strings.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/windbg.md
/usr/share/doc/radare2/yara.md
/usr/share/licenses/radare2
/usr/share/licenses/radare2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/radare2/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/man/man1/r2-docker.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/r2agent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/r2pm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rabin2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/radare2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/radiff2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rafind2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ragg2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rahash2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rarun2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rasm2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rax2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rvc2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/esil.7.gz
/usr/share/radare2/5.3.1/www
/usr/share/radare2/5.3.1/www/README.Fedora
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_r2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_rabin2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_radiff2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_rafind2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_ragg2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_rahash2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_rasm2
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_rax2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.