How To Install urlscan on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlscan in Fedora 36. urlscan is Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email (urlview replacement)

Introduction

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

What is urlscan

urlscan searches for URLs in email messages, then displays a list of them in the current terminal. It is primarily meant as a replacement for urlview.

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

Install urlscan 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 urlscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urlscan

Install urlscan 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 urlscan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install urlscan

How To Uninstall urlscan on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove urlscan

urlscan Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/urlscan
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/COPYING
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/INSTALLER
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/METADATA
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/WHEEL
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan-0.9.9.dist-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/urlchoose.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/urlchoose.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/urlscan.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/__pycache__/urlscan.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/assets
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/assets/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/urlchoose.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urlscan/urlscan.py
/usr/share/doc/urlscan
/usr/share/doc/urlscan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/urlscan/muttrc
/usr/share/man/man1/urlscan.1.gz

References

Summary

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