How To Install packETH on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install packETH in Fedora 36. packETH is A GUI packet generator tool

Introduction

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

What is `packETH`

packETH is a Linux GUI tool that is able to send any packet or sequence of packets on the Ethernet. It uses the RAW socket option, so it doesn’t care about ip, routing, etc. It is designed to have all the options available, with all the correct and incorrect values (incorrect means, that user can send wrong parameters like

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

Install packETH 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 packETH using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install packETH

Install packETH 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 packETH using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install packETH

How To Uninstall packETH on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove packETH

packETH Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/packETH
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/687fa081025cc1d258b73ecf345df558505167
/usr/share/applications/packETH.desktop
/usr/share/doc/packETH
/usr/share/doc/packETH/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/packETH/README
/usr/share/licenses/packETH
/usr/share/licenses/packETH/COPYING
/usr/share/packeth
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Build.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/Gen.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/X.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/donate.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/future.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/interface.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/load.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/preference.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/reset.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/save16.xpm
/usr/share/packeth/pixmaps/send.xpm

References

packETH website

Summary

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