Information about the package, yara, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The yara package is designed for, Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers.
Package Name:
yara
Summary:
Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.7.1
Release:
2.el6
Size:
204 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the yara package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install yara
This command will install yara on the server.
yum remove yara
This command will un-install yara on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yara, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove yara
This command will un-install yara on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yara when using the -y flag.
yum update yara
This command will update yara to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yara, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update yara
This command will update yara to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yara when using the -y flag.
yum info yara
This command will show you core information about the yara package.
yum deplist yara
This command will show you the dependencies for yara. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update yara
This command will check if there is an update waiting on yara. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.