How To Install yara on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara
on CentOS 7.
What is yara
YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determine its logic.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install yara
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yara.
Install yara on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install yara
using yum
by running the following command:
Install yara 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 yara
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall yara on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yara
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.