How To Install capstone on Fedora 34

capstone is A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

Introduction

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

What is `capstone`

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. capstone 4.0.2 4.fc34 x86_64 764 k capstone-4.0.2-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora A lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework http BSD Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

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

Install capstone 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 capstone using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstone

Install capstone 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 capstone using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstone

How To Uninstall capstone on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove capstone

capstone Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/003a7575393fe62c28639136d6750a91f1a5c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/d2199aa4069964ffff109152b7cb7b1b4cb8c6
/usr/lib64/libcapstone.so.4
/usr/share/doc/capstone
/usr/share/doc/capstone/CREDITS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone/README.md
/usr/share/doc/capstone/SPONSORS.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT
/usr/bin/cstool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/3e2aadfc3619ba724bbd815fa3c9a255b5f5f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/4c23b0b8c96c68408081aec8a6ea1cbfba76f1
/usr/lib/libcapstone.so.4
/usr/share/doc/capstone
/usr/share/doc/capstone/CREDITS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/capstone/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/capstone/README.md
/usr/share/doc/capstone/SPONSORS.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/capstone/LICENSE_LLVM.TXT

References

[capstone website](http://www.capstone-engine.org/ http://www.capstone-engine.org/)

Summary

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