How To Install examiner on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install examiner in Fedora 36. examiner is Utility to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries

Introduction

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

What is examiner

The Examiner is an application that utilizes the objdump command to disassemble and comment foreign executable binaries. This app was designed to analyze static compiled binaries but works ok with others. The intention is for forensic research but could also be used in general reverse engineering. This program can only handle basic dissassembly. If the binary has been modified to resist debugging then the Examinier probably will not be able to analyze the code. Also the Examiner will not analyze live running code.

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

Install examiner 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 examiner using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install examiner

Install examiner 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 examiner using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install examiner

How To Uninstall examiner on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove examiner

examiner Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/examiner
/usr/share/doc/examiner
/usr/share/doc/examiner/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/examiner/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/examiner/README
/usr/share/doc/examiner/TODO
/usr/share/doc/examiner/TUTORIAL
/usr/share/examiner
/usr/share/examiner/os
/usr/share/examiner/os/bsd
/usr/share/examiner/os/bsd/examiner_hashes.pl
/usr/share/examiner/os/linux
/usr/share/examiner/os/linux/examiner_hashes.pl
/usr/share/licenses/examiner
/usr/share/licenses/examiner/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/examiner.1.gz

References

Summary

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