Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bannergrab on CentOS 8.
What is bannergrab
Bannergrab is a simple tool, designed to collect information from network services. It can do this using two different methods; grab the connection banners and send triggers and collect the responses. Bannergrab defaults to sending triggers.
We can use yum or dnf to install bannergrab on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bannergrab.
Install bannergrab on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bannergrab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bannergrab
Install bannergrab on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bannergrab using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bannergrab
How To Uninstall bannergrab on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bannergrab package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bannergrab
bannergrab Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/bannergrab
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/3f6ba3a4c53d50a4c35ff709d75afc9b62f26d
/usr/share/doc/bannergrab
/usr/share/doc/bannergrab/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/bannergrab/README
/usr/share/doc/bannergrab/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/bannergrab
/usr/share/licenses/bannergrab/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bannergrab.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bannergrab on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
