How To Install vanityhash on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vanityhash in Fedora 36. vanityhash is Hexadecimal hash fragment creation tool

Introduction

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

What is `vanityhash`

This is a tool that can discover data to be added to the end of a file to produce a desired hexadecimal hash fragment. It searches a message space and runs a hashing algorithm against the original data plus the appended data to determine if the desired hash fragment is present. vanityhash can run multiple parallel workers to effectively make use of multiple processors/cores/ threads, and supports multiple hash digest types (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, etc).

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

Install vanityhash 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 vanityhash using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vanityhash

Install vanityhash 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 vanityhash using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vanityhash

How To Uninstall vanityhash on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vanityhash

vanityhash Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/vanityhash
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vanityhash/README
/usr/share/licenses/vanityhash
/usr/share/licenses/vanityhash/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/vanityhash.1.gz

References

vanityhash website

Summary

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