How To Install stripesnoop on Fedora 34

stripesnoop is Magnetic Stripe Reader

Introduction

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

What is stripesnoop

Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares data from magstripe cards. Numerous readers are supported to gather this information. In addition to simply displaying the raw characters that are encoded on the card, Stripe Snoop has a database of known card formats. It uses this to give you more detailed information about the card.

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

Install stripesnoop 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 stripesnoop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stripesnoop

Install stripesnoop 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 stripesnoop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stripesnoop

How To Uninstall stripesnoop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove stripesnoop

stripesnoop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bitgen
/usr/bin/mod10
/usr/bin/stripesnoop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/5235658dca74a33a54660e187a20ff77ffe22e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/5bb98bcdf334134588572b4c63e0445abc9fa9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/34f0673f1a0be30d9072b021befd1598bce51c
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/hardware
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/hardware/wiring.png
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/amex-blue.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/amex.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/drivers.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/fakeaaa.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/fakeamex.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/fakebuzz.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/fakekroger.txt
/usr/share/doc/stripesnoop/samples/fakevisa.txt
/usr/share/stripesnoop
/usr/share/stripesnoop/dl-iin.csv
/usr/share/stripesnoop/visa-pre.txt

References

Summary

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