How To Install pads on Fedora 34

pads is Passive Asset Detection System

Introduction

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

What is pads

PADS is a libpcap based detection engine used to passively detect network assets.

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

Install pads 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 pads using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pads

Install pads 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 pads using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pads

How To Uninstall pads on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pads

pads Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/pads-ether-codes
/etc/pads-signature-list
/etc/pads.conf
/etc/sysconfig/pads
/usr/bin/pads
/usr/bin/pads-report
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/a0ab56766c69c93397a6815194fe346063aa42
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pads.service
/usr/share/doc/pads
/usr/share/doc/pads/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pads/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pads/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pads/README
/usr/share/man/man8/pads-report.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pads.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pads.conf.8.gz

References

Summary

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