How To Install websec on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install websec in Fedora 36. websec is Web Secretary - Web page monitoring software with highlighting

Introduction

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

What is websec

Web Secretary is a web page change monitoring software. It will detect changes based on content analysis, making sure that it’s not just HTML that changed, but actual content. You can tell it what to ignore in the page (hit counters and such), and it can mail you the document with the changes highlighted or load the highlighted page in a browser.

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

Install websec 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 websec using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install websec

Install websec 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 websec using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install websec

How To Uninstall websec on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove websec

websec Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/webdiff
/usr/bin/websec
/usr/share/doc/websec
/usr/share/doc/websec/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/websec/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/websec/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/websec/README
/usr/share/doc/websec/TODO
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs/site-lisp
/usr/share/doc/websec/emacs/site-lisp/websec.el
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples/ignore.list
/usr/share/doc/websec/examples/url.list
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts/htmldiff
/usr/share/doc/websec/scripts/rollback
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61/syntax
/usr/share/doc/websec/vim61/syntax/websec.vim
/usr/share/man/man1/webdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/websec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ignore.list.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/url.list.5.gz

References

Summary

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