How To Install snallygaster on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snallygaster on Fedora 34.
What is snallygaster
snallygaster is a tool that looks for files accessible on web servers that shouldn’t be public and can pose a security risk.Typical examples include publicly accessible git repositories, backup files potentially containing passwords or database dumps.
We can use yum or dnf to install snallygaster on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snallygaster.
Install snallygaster 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 snallygaster using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snallygaster
Install snallygaster 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 snallygaster using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snallygaster
How To Uninstall snallygaster on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the snallygaster package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snallygaster
snallygaster Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/snallygaster
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snallygaster on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.