How To Install socialscan on Fedora 34

socialscan is CLI and library for usage checking of user names and email addresses

Introduction

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

What is socialscan

socialscan offers accurate and fast checks for email address and user name usage on online platforms. Given an email address or user name, socialscan returns whether it is available, taken or invalid on online platforms.

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

Install socialscan 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 socialscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install socialscan

Install socialscan 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 socialscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install socialscan

How To Uninstall socialscan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove socialscan

socialscan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/socialscan

References

Summary

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