How To Install rulegen on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install pack

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install pack

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is rulegen and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install rulegen on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install rulegen on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install rulegen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pack

Install rulegen on Fedora 34 using yum

Because rulegen is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install rulegen package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pack

How to upgrade (update) a single package rulegen using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like rulegen in this example you should use the following command:

yum update pack

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade pack

How to Upgrade rulegen on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update pack

How To remove rulegen from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the rulegen package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove pack

Extra info and code examples

PACK was developed in order to aid in a password cracking competition "Crack Me If You Can" that occurred during Defcon 2010. The goal of this toolkit is to aid in preparation for the "better than bruteforce" password attacks by analyzing common ways that people create passwords. After the analysis stage, the statistical database can be used to generate attack masks for tools such as oclHashcat. NOTE: This tool itself can not crack passwords, but helps other tools crack more passwords faster.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install rulegen using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the rulegen from Fedora 34.

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