How To Install unicornscan on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unicornscan on CentOS 7.
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 stateless TCP scanning with all 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unicornscan.
Install unicornscan on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install unicornscan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install unicornscan
Install unicornscan 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install unicornscan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install unicornscan
How To Uninstall unicornscan on CentOS 7
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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
