How To Install vanityhash on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vanityhash on Fedora 34.
What is vanityhash
This is a tool that can discover data to be added to the end of a file to produce a desired hexadecimal hash fragment. It searches a message space and runs a hashing algorithm against the original data plus the appended data to determine if the desired hash fragment is present. vanityhash can run multiple parallel workers to effectively make use of multiple processors/cores/ threads, and supports multiple hash digest types (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, etc).
We can use yum or dnf to install vanityhash on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vanityhash.
Install vanityhash 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 vanityhash using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vanityhash
Install vanityhash 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 vanityhash using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vanityhash
How To Uninstall vanityhash on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the vanityhash package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vanityhash
vanityhash Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/vanityhash
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash/README
/usr/share/licenses/vanityhash
/usr/share/licenses/vanityhash/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/vanityhash.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vanityhash on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.