How To Install yersinia on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install yersinia in Fedora 36. yersinia is Network protocols tester and attacker

Introduction

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

What is yersinia

Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems. Currently, there are some network protocols implemented, but others are coming (tell us which one is your preferred). Attacks for the following network protocols are implemented (but of course you are free for implementing new ones) * Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) * Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) * Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) * Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) * Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) * IEEE 802.1Q and IEEE 802.1X * Inter-Switch Link Protocol (ISL) * VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

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

Install yersinia 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 yersinia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yersinia

Install yersinia 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 yersinia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yersinia

How To Uninstall yersinia on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove yersinia

yersinia Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/yersinia
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/c5871231935dc65661dffacd691f1489913ee7
/usr/share/doc/yersinia
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/README
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/yersinia/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/yersinia
/usr/share/licenses/yersinia/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/yersinia.8.gz

References

Summary

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