How To Install wafw00f on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wafw00f on CentOS 8. wafw00f is A tool to identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wafw00f on CentOS 8.

What is wafw00f

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products.

We can use yum or dnf to install wafw00f on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wafw00f.

Install wafw00f on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install wafw00f using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wafw00f

Install wafw00f on CentOS 8 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 wafw00f using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wafw00f

How To Uninstall wafw00f on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wafw00f package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wafw00f

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wafw00f on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.