How To Install tcpick on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpick in Fedora 36. tcpick is TCP stream sniffer, tracker and capturer

Introduction

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

What is tcpick

tcpick is a textmode sniffer that can track tcp streams and saves the data captured in files or displays them in the terminal. Useful for picking files in a passive way. It can store all connections in different files, or it can display all the stream on the terminal. It is useful to keep track of what users of a network are doing, and is usable with textmode tools like grep, sed and awk. It can handle eth and ppp interfaces.

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

Install tcpick 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 tcpick using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tcpick

Install tcpick 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 tcpick using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tcpick

How To Uninstall tcpick on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove tcpick

tcpick Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/389a57ffaa63ecb9bfec60c4c0efc23cede090
/usr/sbin/tcpick
/usr/share/doc/tcpick
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/KNOWN-BUGS
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/README
/usr/share/doc/tcpick/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/tcpick
/usr/share/licenses/tcpick/COPYING
/usr/share/man/it/man8/tcpick.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcpick.8.gz

References

Summary

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