How To Install shodan on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install shodan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is shodan

Command-line tool to to access Shodan.io.

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

Install shodan on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install shodan

Install shodan on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install shodan

How To Uninstall shodan on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove shodan

shodan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/shodan

References

• shodan website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install shodan on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.