How To Install netscanner on Fedora 34

netscanner is TCP/UDP scanner to find open or closed ports

Introduction

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

What is netscanner

A TCP/UDP scanner to find open or closed ports.

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

Install netscanner 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 netscanner using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install netscanner

Install netscanner 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 netscanner using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install netscanner

How To Uninstall netscanner on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove netscanner

netscanner Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/netscanner
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/7ece20462cc2d43aae92ae6962d09e94b0585b
/usr/share/doc/netscanner
/usr/share/doc/netscanner/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/netscanner
/usr/share/licenses/netscanner/LICENSE

References

Summary

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