How To Install fierce on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fierce on Debian 11.
What is fierce
fierce is:
Fierce is a semi-lightweight scanner that helps locate non-contiguous IP space and hostnames against specified domains. It’s really meant as a pre-cursor to nmap, unicornscan, nessus, nikto, etc, since all of those require that you already know what IP space you are looking for. This does not perform exploitation and does not scan the whole internet indiscriminately. It is meant specifically to locate likely targets both inside and outside a corporate network.
Because it uses DNS primarily you will often find mis-configured networks that leak internal address space. That’s especially useful in targeted malware. Originally written by RSnake along with others at http://ha.ckers.org/. This is simply a conversion to Python 3 to simplify and modernize the codebase.
There are three methods to install fierce on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fierce Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fierce
Install fierce Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fierce
Install fierce Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fierce
How To Uninstall fierce on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fierce package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fierce
Uninstall fierce And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fierce and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fierce
Remove fierce Configurations and Data
To remove fierce configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fierce
Remove fierce configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fierce configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fierce
Dependencies
fierce have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fierce package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
