How To Install ssldump on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssldump on CentOS 8.
What is ssldump
The ssldump program is an SSL/TLS network protocol analyzer. It identifies TCP connections on the chosen network interface and attempts to interpret them as SSL/TLS traffic. When ssldump identifies SSL/TLS traffic, ssldump decodes the records and displays them in a textual form to stdout. And if provided with the appropriate keying material, ssldump will also decrypt the connections and display the application data traffic. This program is based on tcpdump, a network monitoring and data acquisition tool.
We can use yum or dnf to install ssldump on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ssldump.
Install ssldump 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 ssldump using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ssldump
Install ssldump 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 ssldump using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ssldump
How To Uninstall ssldump on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ssldump package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ssldump
ssldump Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/ac4c65f5843996a6387a4f163b40145d0f396d
/usr/sbin/ssldump
/usr/share/doc/ssldump
/usr/share/doc/ssldump/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/ssldump/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ssldump/HOWTO
/usr/share/doc/ssldump/README
/usr/share/doc/ssldump/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ssldump
/usr/share/licenses/ssldump/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man1/ssldump.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssldump on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.