How To Install unicornscan on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unicornscan on AlmaLinux 8.
What is unicornscan
Unicornscan is an attempt at a user-land distributed TCP/IP stack. It is intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or network. Although it currently has hundreds of individual features, a main set of abilities include variations of TCP flags, asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing, asynchronous protocol specific UDP scanning (sending enough of a signature to elicit a response), active and passive remote OS, application and component identification by analyzing responses, PCAP file logging and filtering, relational database output, custom module support, customized data-set views.
We can use yum or dnf to install unicornscan on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unicornscan.
Install unicornscan 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 unicornscan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install unicornscan
Install unicornscan 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 unicornscan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install unicornscan
How To Uninstall unicornscan on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the unicornscan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove unicornscan
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unicornscan on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
