How To Install scanless on Fedora 34

scanless is An online port scan scraper

Introduction

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

What is scanless

scanless is a Python 3 command-line utility and library for using websites that can perform port scans on your behalf.

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

Install scanless 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 scanless using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scanless

Install scanless 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 scanless using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scanless

How To Uninstall scanless on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scanless

scanless Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scanless

References

Summary

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