How To Install subfinder on Fedora 34

subfinder is Subdomain discovery tool

Introduction

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

What is subfinder

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers valid subdomains for websites. Designed as a passive framework to be useful for bug bounties and safe for penetration testing.

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

Install subfinder 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 subfinder using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install subfinder

Install subfinder 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 subfinder using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install subfinder

How To Uninstall subfinder on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove subfinder

subfinder Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/subfinder
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/8ac9ba1011ec64de626e786806cdeb873dc0e6
/usr/share/doc/subfinder
/usr/share/doc/subfinder/DISCLAIMER.md
/usr/share/doc/subfinder/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
/usr/share/doc/subfinder/README.md
/usr/share/doc/subfinder/THANKS.md
/usr/share/licenses/subfinder
/usr/share/licenses/subfinder/LICENSE

References

Summary

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