How To Install websec on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install websec on Fedora 34.
What is websec
Web Secretary is a web page change monitoring software. It will detect changes based on content analysis, making sure that it’s not just HTML that changed, but actual content. You can tell it what to ignore in the page (hit counters and such), and it can mail you the document with the changes highlighted or load the highlighted page in a browser.
We can use yum or dnf to install websec on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install websec.
Install websec 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 websec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install websec
Install websec 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 websec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install websec
How To Uninstall websec on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the websec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove websec
websec Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/webdiff
/usr/bin/websec
/usr/share/doc/websec
/usr/share/doc/websec/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/websec/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/websec/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/websec/README
/usr/share/doc/websec/TODO
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs/site-lisp/websec.el
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples/ignore.list
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples/url.list
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts/htmldiff
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts/rollback
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61/syntax
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61/syntax/websec.vim
/usr/share/man/man1/webdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/websec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ignore.list.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/url.list.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install websec on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
