How To Install whsniff on Fedora 34

whsniff is Command line utility that interfaces TI CC2531 USB dongle

Introduction

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

What is whsniff

Whsniff is a command line utility that interfaces TI CC2531 USB dongle with Wireshark for capturing and displaying IEEE 802.15.4 traffic at 2.4 GHz. Whsniff reads the packets from TI CC2531 USB dongle with sniffer_fw_cc2531 firmware, converts to the PCAP format and writes to the standard output.

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

Install whsniff 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 whsniff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whsniff

Install whsniff 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 whsniff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whsniff

How To Uninstall whsniff on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove whsniff

whsniff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/whsniff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/a5b74ed98eef3f62fe5478a4204ba62472109f
/usr/share/doc/whsniff
/usr/share/doc/whsniff/ReadMe.md
/usr/share/licenses/whsniff
/usr/share/licenses/whsniff/LICENSE

References

Summary

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