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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install yara using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yara
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install yara using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yara
How To Uninstall yara on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yara package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yara
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
