How To Install reaver on Fedora 34

reaver is Brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup

Introduction

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

What is reaver

Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in http

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

Install reaver 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 reaver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install reaver

Install reaver 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 reaver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install reaver

How To Uninstall reaver on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove reaver

reaver Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/reaver
/usr/bin/wash
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/0199e8d8c1d25cf39d2720cf2fe6aad36cb9ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/0199e8d8c1d25cf39d2720cf2fe6aad36cb9ef.1
/usr/share/doc/reaver
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README.REAVER
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README.WASH
/usr/share/licenses/reaver
/usr/share/licenses/reaver/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/reaver.1.gz
/var/lib/reaver/reaver.db

References

Summary

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