How To Install tcpick on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpick on AlmaLinux 8.
What is tcpick
tcpick is a textmode sniffer that can track tcp streams and saves the data captured in files or displays them in the terminal. Useful for picking files in a passive way. It can store all connections in different files, or it can display all the stream on the terminal. It is useful to keep track of what users of a network are doing, and is usable with textmode tools like grep, sed and awk. It can handle eth and ppp interfaces.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcpick on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpick.
Install tcpick 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 tcpick using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcpick
Install tcpick 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 tcpick using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcpick
How To Uninstall tcpick on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the tcpick package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcpick
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpick on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
