How To Install cvechecker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cvechecker on CentOS 7.
What is cvechecker
The goal of cvechecker is to report about possible vulnerabilities on your system, by scanning a list of installed software and matching results with the CVE database. This is not a bullet-proof method and you will have many false positives (i.e. but the tool isn’t able to detect the revision itself).
We can use yum or dnf to install cvechecker on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvechecker.
Install cvechecker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cvechecker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cvechecker
Install cvechecker on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cvechecker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cvechecker
How To Uninstall cvechecker on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cvechecker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cvechecker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cvechecker on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
