How To Install sing on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing
on Fedora 36.
What is sing
Sing is a little tool that sends fully customized ICMP packets from command line. The main purpose is to replace/complement the nice ping command with certain enhancements as - Send fragmented and monster packets > 65534 bytes - Send/read spoofed packets - Send many ICMP Information types in addition to the echo request type, sent by default as address mask request, timestamp, information request, router solicitation and router advertisement - Send many ICMP error types destination unreach and parameter problem - Send to host with loose or strict source routing - Use little fingerprinting techniques to discover Windows or Solaris boxes - Send ICMP packets emulating certain OS Unix and Windows at the moment
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sing
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sing.
Install sing on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sing
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install sing on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sing
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sing on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the sing
package we can use the following command:
sing Package Contents on Fedora 36
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sing
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).