How To Install ssdeep on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssdeep
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ssdeep.
Install ssdeep on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ssdeep
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ssdeep 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 ssdeep
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ssdeep on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ssdeep
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ssdeep
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.