How To Install gobuster on Fedora 34

gobuster is Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go

Introduction

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

What is gobuster

Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go.

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

Install gobuster 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 gobuster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gobuster

Install gobuster 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 gobuster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gobuster

How To Uninstall gobuster on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gobuster

gobuster Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gobuster
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/52f941c471abff430addeadd4759cfcea32b7c
/usr/share/doc/gobuster
/usr/share/doc/gobuster/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gobuster/TODO.md
/usr/share/licenses/gobuster
/usr/share/licenses/gobuster/LICENSE

References

Summary

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