How To Install rats on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rats on Fedora 34.
What is rats
RATS(Rough Auditing Tool for Security) scans through code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of this tool is not to definitively find bugs (yet). The current goal is to provide a reasonable starting point for performing manual security audits. The initial vulnerability database is taken directly from things that could be easily found when starting with the forthcoming book, “Building Secure Software” by Viega and McGraw.
We can use yum or dnf to install rats on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rats.
Install rats 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 rats using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rats
Install rats 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 rats using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rats
How To Uninstall rats on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rats package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rats
rats Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/rats
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/eee39d17a782307d672e83ab848e7f9f697051
/usr/share/doc/rats
/usr/share/doc/rats/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rats/README
/usr/share/man/man1/rats.1.gz
/usr/share/rats
/usr/share/rats/rats-c.xml
/usr/share/rats/rats-openssl.xml
/usr/share/rats/rats-perl.xml
/usr/share/rats/rats-php.xml
/usr/share/rats/rats-python.xml
/usr/share/rats/rats-ruby.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rats on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
