How To Install reaver on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install reaver in Fedora 36. reaver is Brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup

Introduction

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

What is `reaver`

Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in http

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

Install reaver 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 reaver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install reaver

Install reaver 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 reaver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install reaver

How To Uninstall reaver on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove reaver

reaver Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/reaver
/usr/bin/wash
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/747ccaebb89b2f0d4419e41e619f874dd2c974
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/747ccaebb89b2f0d4419e41e619f874dd2c974.1
/usr/share/doc/reaver
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README.REAVER
/usr/share/doc/reaver/README.WASH
/usr/share/licenses/reaver
/usr/share/licenses/reaver/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/reaver.1.gz
/var/lib/reaver/reaver.db

References

reaver website

Summary

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