How To Install cowpatty on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowpatty in Fedora 36. cowpatty is WPA password cracker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowpatty on Fedora 36.

What is `cowpatty`

Cowpatty is designed to audit the pre-shared key (PSK) selection for WPA networks based on the TKIP protocol. It can perform both dictionary and computed rainbow table attacks.

We can use yum or dnf to install cowpatty on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cowpatty.

Install cowpatty on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cowpatty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cowpatty

Install cowpatty on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cowpatty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cowpatty

How To Uninstall cowpatty on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cowpatty

cowpatty Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cowpatty
/usr/bin/genpmk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/c2d0a11c5f304f0df950165901d9c6320f06d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/b83d8e3fb40d1691199a8c7f204d14c97a3c6c
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/README
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/TODO

References

cowpatty website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cowpatty on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).