How To Install whsniff on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install whsniff on CentOS 8.
What is whsniff
Whsniff is a command line utility that interfaces TI CC2531 USB dongle with Wireshark for capturing and displaying IEEE 802.15.4 traffic at 2.4 GHz. Whsniff reads the packets from TI CC2531 USB dongle with sniffer_fw_cc2531 firmware, converts to the PCAP format and writes to the standard output.
We can use yum or dnf to install whsniff on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whsniff.
Install whsniff 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 whsniff using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install whsniff
Install whsniff 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 whsniff using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install whsniff
How To Uninstall whsniff on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the whsniff package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove whsniff
whsniff Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/whsniff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/6770ff9ea0af90dac670b94da2e34ace9a50c6
/usr/share/doc/whsniff
/usr/share/doc/whsniff/ReadMe.md
/usr/share/licenses/whsniff
/usr/share/licenses/whsniff/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whsniff on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.