How To Install badchars on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install badchars in AlmaLinux 8. badchars is HEX bad char generator for different programming languages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install badchars on AlmaLinux 8.

What is badchars

A HEX bad char generator to instruct encoders such as shikata-ga-nai to transform those to other chars.

We can use yum or dnf to install badchars on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install badchars.

Install badchars on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install badchars using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install badchars

Install badchars on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install badchars using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install badchars

How To Uninstall badchars on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove badchars

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install badchars on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.