How To Install ssdeep on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssdeep
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is ssdeep
ssdeep is a program for computing context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH). Also called fuzzy hashes, CTPH can match inputs that have homologies. Such inputs have sequences of identical bytes in the same order, although bytes in between these sequences may be different in both content and length.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ssdeep
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ssdeep.
Install ssdeep on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ssdeep
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ssdeep
Install ssdeep on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ssdeep
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ssdeep
How To Uninstall ssdeep on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the ssdeep
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ssdeep
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssdeep
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.