How To Install ngrep on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngrep
on Fedora 36.
What is ngrep
ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP and Raw protocols across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring, 802.11 and null interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ngrep
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ngrep.
Install ngrep 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 ngrep
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ngrep
Install ngrep 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 ngrep
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ngrep
How To Uninstall ngrep on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ngrep
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ngrep
ngrep Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/0976d2a91f6d16209bd8ec82424085e00ad97f
/usr/sbin/ngrep
/usr/share/doc/ngrep
/usr/share/doc/ngrep/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/ngrep/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/ngrep/EXAMPLES.md
/usr/share/doc/ngrep/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ngrep
/usr/share/licenses/ngrep/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/ngrep.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngrep
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).