How To Install fierce on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fierce
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fierce
fierce is:
Fierce is a semi-lightweight scanner that helps locate non-contiguous IP space and hostnames against specified domains. It’s really meant as a pre-cursor to nmap, unicornscan, nessus, nikto, etc, since all of those require that you already know what IP space you are looking for. This does not perform exploitation and does not scan the whole internet indiscriminately. It is meant specifically to locate likely targets both inside and outside a corporate network.
Because it uses DNS primarily you will often find mis-configured networks that leak internal address space. That’s especially useful in targeted malware. Originally written by RSnake along with others at http://ha.ckers.org/. This is simply a conversion to Python 3 to simplify and modernize the codebase.
There are three methods to install fierce
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fierce Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fierce
Install fierce Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fierce
Install fierce Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fierce
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fierce
How To Uninstall fierce on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fierce
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fierce
Uninstall fierce And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fierce
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fierce
Remove fierce Configurations and Data
To remove fierce
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fierce
Remove fierce configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fierce
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fierce
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fierce
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.