How To Install examiner on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install examiner on Fedora 34.
What is examiner
The Examiner is an application that utilizes the objdump command to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries. This app was designed to analyze static compiled binaries but works ok with others. The intention is for forensic research but could also be used in general reverse engineering. This program can only handle basic dissassembly. If the binary has been modified to resist debugging then the Examinier probably will not be able to analyze the code. Also the Examiner will not analyze live running code.
We can use yum or dnf to install examiner on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install examiner.
Install examiner 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 examiner using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install examiner
Install examiner 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 examiner using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install examiner
How To Uninstall examiner on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the examiner package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove examiner
examiner Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/examiner
/usr/share/doc/examiner
/usr/share/doc/examiner/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/examiner/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/examiner/README
/usr/share/doc/examiner/TODO
/usr/share/doc/examiner/TUTORIAL
/usr/share/examiner
/usr/share/examiner/os
/usr/share/examiner/os/bsd
/usr/share/examiner/os/bsd/examiner_hashes.pl
/usr/share/examiner/os/linux
/usr/share/examiner/os/linux/examiner_hashes.pl
/usr/share/licenses/examiner
/usr/share/licenses/examiner/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/examiner.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install examiner on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.