How To Install pshark on Fedora 34

pshark is Simple tool to print PTP packets from pcap/pcapng captures

Introduction

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

What is `pshark`

pshark is a simple tool to read pcap/pcapng captures and parse and print PTP packets from there. Allows to test our protocol parser implementation against arbitrary tcpdump capture. Also the code shows integration with GoPacket library.

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

Install pshark 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 pshark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pshark

Install pshark 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 pshark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pshark

How To Uninstall pshark on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pshark

pshark Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pshark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/8482b4ed40410b3363f6fe41238f5cf9530cb2
/usr/share/doc/pshark
/usr/share/doc/pshark/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pshark
/usr/share/licenses/pshark/LICENSE

References

pshark website

Summary

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