In this article, I’m going to show how to install netcat on RHEL/CentOS 8. Let’s get started:

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Verification
3. Usage

Installation

The nmap package contains the ncat package. If we install nmap, the ncat will be installed.

Install nmap using the command:

sudo dnf install nmap

Verification

Run this command to check ncat successfully installed or not:

ncat --version

You’ll see output like:

Ncat: Version 7.91 ( https://nmap.org/ncat )

Usage

Reverse shell listener with Netcat:

ncat -lvnp 13629

I’ll try to show more usage later.

That’s it. Thanks for reading.