How To Install hping3 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hping3 on Fedora 34.
What is hping3
hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping do with ICMP replies. hping3 can handle fragmentation, and almost arbitrary packet size and content, using the command line interface. Since version 3, hping implements scripting capabilties
We can use yum or dnf to install hping3 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hping3.
Install hping3 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 hping3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hping3
Install hping3 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 hping3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hping3
How To Uninstall hping3 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hping3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hping3
hping3 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/54cd4da534daaf9b8684f5efb4f39271872e33
/usr/sbin/hping
/usr/sbin/hping2
/usr/sbin/hping3
/usr/share/doc/hping3
/usr/share/doc/hping3/AS-BACKDOOR
/usr/share/doc/hping3/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/hping3/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hping3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING2-HOWTO.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING2-IS-OPEN
/usr/share/doc/hping3/HPING3.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/KNOWN-BUGS
/usr/share/doc/hping3/MORE-FUN-WITH-IPID
/usr/share/doc/hping3/README
/usr/share/doc/hping3/SPOOFED_SCAN.txt
/usr/share/doc/hping3/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/hping3.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hping3 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.