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v : Set verbosity level (can be used several times) Ncat: 0 bytes sent, 0 bytes received in 0.07 seconds. As you can check in the below output, system is currently able to reach to on port 443. Now that we have netcat package installed successfully in the System, you can quickly verify the functionality of nc command by checking port 443 as shown below. ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i nmap-ncat 86_64 Step 5: Test nc command Verifying : 14:libpcap-1.5.86_64 2/2Д¬omplete! Step 4: Verify netcat package installationДЄfter successful installation of netcat package, you can check the rpm db to confirm if the netcat package is installed successfully using rpm command as shown below. > Processing Dependency: libpcap.so.1()(64bit) for package: 2:86_64

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This command will also install any dependent packages which needs to be installed with netcat package. Once system is updated you can install netcat package using yum install -y nc command as shown below.

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No packages marked for update Step 3: Install Netcat Package Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile In this case, since system has all the latest updates installed hence there are no further updates available to install. Packages can be updated by running yum install -y command as shown below. You need update all the packages to use latest updates before proceeding with the netcat package installation.

You can use any user with sudo access to run all these commands. Please note in this example I have used root user to run all the commands below.

Since netcat package does not comes by default in RedHat Based systems, so we need to install it manually using below steps.ДЄlso Read: 17+ Popular nc command examples in Linux (RedHat/CentOS 7/8) Step 1: PrerequisitesДЄ)You need to have a running RedHat/CentOS 7/8 System.Д«)You should have sudo access to install netcat package.Д¬)Also you need to have yum command installed in your system. I will cover other networking tools in future articles. In this session we will only look into the steps to install netcat on RedHat Based Systems. Now a days there are lot of open source networking tools available in Linux Based Systems to perform network troubleshooting activity. nc command in Linux can be used for variety of purposes like checking the status of remote ports, initiating chat services between server and client, start listening on some ports for incoming connections etc. In this article, i will take you through the steps to install netcat command in Linux.

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