How To Install asnip on Fedora 34

asnip is ASN detail retriever

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asnip on Fedora 34.

What is `asnip`

Asnip retrieves all IPs used by an organization for surface mapping. It uses the IP or domain name and looks up the Autonomous System Number (ASN), retrieves the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) subnet masks and converts them to IPs.

We can use yum or dnf to install asnip on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install asnip.

Install asnip on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install asnip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install asnip

Install asnip on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install asnip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install asnip

How To Uninstall asnip on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the asnip package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove asnip

asnip Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/asnip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/0522b50ad680f6776907c86f15c410c47a0652
/usr/share/doc/asnip
/usr/share/doc/asnip/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/asnip
/usr/share/licenses/asnip/LICENSE

References

asnip website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install asnip on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.