How To Install shellinabox on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shellinabox on Fedora 34.
What is shellinabox
Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator. This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins.
We can use yum or dnf to install shellinabox on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shellinabox.
Install shellinabox 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 shellinabox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shellinabox
Install shellinabox 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 shellinabox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shellinabox
How To Uninstall shellinabox on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the shellinabox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shellinabox
shellinabox Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/sysconfig/shellinaboxd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/c06891aba0eaf70a67abc4dfd864fb44b883fc
/usr/lib/systemd/system/shellinaboxd.service
/usr/sbin/shellinaboxd
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/README
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/print-styles.css
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/shell_in_a_box.js
/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/styles.css
/usr/share/man/man1/shellinaboxd.1.gz
/usr/share/shellinabox
/usr/share/shellinabox/color.css
/usr/share/shellinabox/monochrome.css
/usr/share/shellinabox/white-on-black.css
/var/lib/shellinabox
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shellinabox on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
