How To Install masscan on Fedora 34

masscan is This is an Internet-scale port scanner

Introduction

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

What is masscan

This is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine. It is a faster port scan that produces results similar to nmap, the most famous port scanner. Internally, it operates more like scanrand, unicornscan, and ZMap, using asynchronous transmission.

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

Install masscan 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 masscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install masscan

Install masscan 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 masscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install masscan

How To Uninstall masscan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove masscan

masscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/masscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/02e7c84e99b8275a516731ae231a4c1f9e6208
/usr/share/doc/masscan
/usr/share/doc/masscan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/masscan/VULNINFO.md
/usr/share/licenses/masscan
/usr/share/licenses/masscan/LICENSE

References

Summary

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