How To Install scanmem on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scanmem on Fedora 34.
What is scanmem
scanmem is a simple interactive debugging utility, used to locate the address of a variable in an executing process. This can be used for the analysis or modification of a hostile process on a compromised machine, reverse engineering, or as a “pokefinder” to cheat at video games.
We can use yum or dnf to install scanmem on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scanmem.
Install scanmem 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 scanmem using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scanmem
Install scanmem 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 scanmem using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scanmem
How To Uninstall scanmem on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the scanmem package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scanmem
scanmem Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/scanmem
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/0590bd75b8e20166cbba73e64e007e605a9038
/usr/share/doc/scanmem
/usr/share/doc/scanmem/README
/usr/share/man/man1/scanmem.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scanmem on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.