How To Install dnstwist on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstwist on Fedora 34.
What is dnstwist
See what sort of trouble users can get in trying to type your domain name. Find similar-looking domains that adversaries can use to attack you. Detect typosquatters, phishing attacks, fraud and corporate espionage. Useful as an additional source of targeted threat intelligence.
We can use yum or dnf to install dnstwist on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnstwist.
Install dnstwist 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 dnstwist using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnstwist
Install dnstwist 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 dnstwist using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnstwist
How To Uninstall dnstwist on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dnstwist package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnstwist
dnstwist Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/dnstwist
/usr/share/dnstwist
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries/abused_tlds.dict
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries/common_tlds.dict
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries/english.dict
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries/french.dict
/usr/share/dnstwist/dictionaries/polish.dict
/usr/share/doc/dnstwist
/usr/share/doc/dnstwist/README.md
/usr/share/doc/dnstwist/THANKS.md
/usr/share/licenses/dnstwist
/usr/share/licenses/dnstwist/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/dnstwist.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstwist on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.