How To Install shodan on Fedora 34

shodan is CLI tool to access Shodan.io

Introduction

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

What is shodan

Command-line tool to to access Shodan.io.

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

Install shodan 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 shodan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shodan

Install shodan 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 shodan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shodan

How To Uninstall shodan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shodan

shodan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/shodan

References

Summary

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