How To Install packETH on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on Fedora 34.
What is packETH
packETH is a Linux GUI tool that is able to send any packet or sequence of packets on the Ethernet. It uses the RAW socket option, so it doesn’t care about ip, routing, etc. It is designed to have all the options available, with all the correct and incorrect values (incorrect means, that user can send wrong parameters like
We can use yum or dnf to install packETH on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install packETH.
Install packETH 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 packETH using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install packETH
Install packETH 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 packETH using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install packETH
How To Uninstall packETH on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the packETH package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove packETH
packETH Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/packETH
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/c4931b90c124d66e11bafcb77cba2da838baeb
/usr/share/applications/packETH.desktop
/usr/share/doc/packETH
/usr/share/doc/packETH/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packETH/README
/usr/share/licenses/packETH
/usr/share/licenses/packETH/COPYING
/usr/share/packeth
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Build.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Gen.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/X.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/donate.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/future.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/interface.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/load.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/preference.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/reset.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save16.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/send.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.