How To Install nbtscan on Fedora 34

nbtscan is Tool to gather NetBIOS info from Windows networks

Introduction

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

What is nbtscan

NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends a NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form.

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

Install nbtscan 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 nbtscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nbtscan

Install nbtscan 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 nbtscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nbtscan

How To Uninstall nbtscan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nbtscan

nbtscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nbtscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/3c69112b86dbeadd2bbeb7397f1f51d1683abc
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nbtscan/README

References

Summary

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