How To Install masscan on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan
on CentOS 7.
What is masscan
It is a faster port scan that produces results similar to nmap, the most famous port scanner. Internally, it operates more like scanrand, unicornscan, and ZMap, using asynchronous transmission.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install masscan
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install masscan.
Install masscan on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install masscan
using yum
by running the following command:
Install masscan 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.
After updating yum database, We can install masscan
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall masscan on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the masscan
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install masscan
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.