How To Install sing on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing on Fedora 34.
What is sing
Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes - Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many ICMP error types destination unreach and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing - Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes - Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS Unix and Windows at the moment
We can use yum or dnf to install sing on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sing.
Install sing 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 sing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sing
Install sing 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 sing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sing
How To Uninstall sing on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sing
sing Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/11c86813b273e575eca917f0c3c2df3f174ecc
/usr/sbin/sing
/usr/share/doc/sing
/usr/share/doc/sing/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sing/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sing/LEEME
/usr/share/doc/sing/README
/usr/share/doc/sing/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/sing
/usr/share/licenses/sing/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sing.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
