How To Install steghide on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install steghide on Fedora 34.
What is steghide
Steghide is a steganography program that is able to hide data in various kinds of image- and audio-files. The color- respectivly sample-frequencies are not changed thus making the embedding resistant against first-order statistical tests. Features of steghide include compression and encryption of embedded data, embedding of a checksum to verify the integrity of the extracted data and support for jpeg, bmp, wav and au files.
We can use yum or dnf to install steghide on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install steghide.
Install steghide 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 steghide using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install steghide
Install steghide 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 steghide using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install steghide
How To Uninstall steghide on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the steghide package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove steghide
steghide Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/steghide
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/0d52fbd0fb099d529d65d39c2649170314502c
/usr/share/doc/steghide
/usr/share/doc/steghide/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/steghide/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/steghide/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/steghide/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/steghide/README
/usr/share/doc/steghide/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/steghide
/usr/share/licenses/steghide/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/steghide.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/steghide.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/steghide.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/steghide.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/steghide.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install steghide on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
