How To Install onionscan on Fedora 34

onionscan is Tool for investigating the Dark Web

Introduction

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

What is onionscan

OnionScan is a free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web.

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

Install onionscan 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 onionscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install onionscan

Install onionscan 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 onionscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install onionscan

How To Uninstall onionscan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove onionscan

onionscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/onionscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/ef63abe05d52933f0a922a1742812728dae645
/usr/share/doc/onionscan
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/000-onionscan.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/001-database.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/README.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/correlation-lab.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/crawl-configuration.md
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-custom-tag.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-lab-main.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-search.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-summary.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-tagging.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/images/correlation-title.png
/usr/share/doc/onionscan/doc/what-is-scanned-for.md
/usr/share/licenses/onionscan
/usr/share/licenses/onionscan/LICENSE

References

Summary

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