How To Install twa on Fedora 34

twa is Tiny web auditor with strong opinions

Introduction

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

What is twa

twa is a website auditing tool that can be used to detect HTTPS issues, missing security headers, information-leaking headers, and other potential security headers.

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

Install twa 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 twa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install twa

Install twa 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 twa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install twa

How To Uninstall twa on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove twa

twa Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/tscore
/usr/bin/twa
/usr/share/doc/twa
/usr/share/doc/twa/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/twa
/usr/share/licenses/twa/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/twa.1.gz

References

Summary

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