How To Install nmap on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmap
on CentOS 7.
What is nmap
Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host operating system identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy scanning, determination of TCP sequence predictability characteristics, reverse-identd scanning, and more. In addition to the classic command-line nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (netcat utility ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (nping).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install nmap
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nmap.
Install nmap on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nmap
using yum
by running the following command:
Install nmap 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 nmap
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nmap on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nmap
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmap
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.