How To Install libmodsecurity on Fedora 34

libmodsecurity is A library that loads/interprets rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules A library that loads/interprets rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules

Introduction

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

What is `libmodsecurity`

Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. In general, it provides the capability to load/interpret rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules format and apply them to HTTP content provided by your application via Connectors. libmodsecurity 3.0.4 4.fc34 x86_64 566 k libmodsecurity-3.0.4-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora A library that loads/interprets rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules https ASL 2.0 Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. In general, it provides the capability to load/interpret rules written in the ModSecurity SecRules format and apply them to HTTP content provided by your application via Connectors.

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

Install libmodsecurity 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 libmodsecurity using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmodsecurity

Install libmodsecurity 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 libmodsecurity using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmodsecurity

How To Uninstall libmodsecurity on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmodsecurity

libmodsecurity Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/modsec-rules-check
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/d527793d898aa3acd0e42bea1557f70c03719d
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/8b594491e84db3e5ee1093e9f1aacd046a689d
/usr/lib64/libmodsecurity.so.3
/usr/lib64/libmodsecurity.so.3.0.4
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libmodsecurity
/usr/share/licenses/libmodsecurity/LICENSE
/usr/bin/modsec-rules-check
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/38aa624ac256efef1c58d469cd7e41adf87a7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/366d7d1989e1bdb354b918b206089990a66664
/usr/lib/libmodsecurity.so.3
/usr/lib/libmodsecurity.so.3.0.4
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmodsecurity/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libmodsecurity
/usr/share/licenses/libmodsecurity/LICENSE

References

[libmodsecurity website](https://www.modsecurity.org/ https://www.modsecurity.org/)

Summary

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