How To Install pixiewps on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixiewps on Fedora 34.
What is pixiewps
Pixiewps is a tool written in C used to bruteforce offline the WPS PIN exploiting the low or non-existing entropy of some software implementations, the so-called “pixie-dust attack” discovered by Dominique Bongard in summer 2014.
We can use yum or dnf to install pixiewps on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pixiewps.
Install pixiewps 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 pixiewps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pixiewps
Install pixiewps 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 pixiewps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pixiewps
How To Uninstall pixiewps on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pixiewps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pixiewps
pixiewps Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pixiewps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/2175cb3e8d75cfe5491a167133e3329ab28cbe
/usr/share/doc/pixiewps
/usr/share/doc/pixiewps/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pixiewps
/usr/share/licenses/pixiewps/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/pixiewps.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixiewps on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.