How To Install libnet10 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnet10 on CentOS 7.
What is libnet10
Libnet is a high-level API (toolkit) allowing the application programmer to construct and inject network packets. It provides a portable and simplified interface for low-level network packet shaping, handling and injection. Libnet hides much of the tedium of packet creation from the application programmer such as multiplexing, buffer management, arcane packet header information, byte-ordering, OS-dependent issues and much more. Libnet features portable packet creation interfaces at the IP layer and link layer, as well as a host of supplementary and complementary functionality. This package contains an old and deprecated version of libnet. You need it only if the software you are using hasn’t been updated to work with the newer version and the newer API.
We can use yum or dnf to install libnet10 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnet10.
Install libnet10 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libnet10 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libnet10
Install libnet10 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 libnet10 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libnet10
How To Uninstall libnet10 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libnet10 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libnet10
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnet10 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.