How To Install goldeneye on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goldeneye
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is goldeneye
goldeneye is:
GoldenEye is a HTTP DoS Test Tool. This tool can be used to test if a site is susceptible to Deny of Service (DoS) attacks. Is possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web server can be compromised.
The program tests the security in networks and uses ‘HTTP Keep Alive
- NoCache’ as attack vector.
This package is useful for pentesters.
There are three methods to install goldeneye
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install goldeneye Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install goldeneye
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install goldeneye
Install goldeneye Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install goldeneye
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install goldeneye
Install goldeneye Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install goldeneye
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install goldeneye
How To Uninstall goldeneye on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the goldeneye
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove goldeneye
Uninstall goldeneye And Its Dependencies
To uninstall goldeneye
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove goldeneye
Remove goldeneye Configurations and Data
To remove goldeneye
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge goldeneye
Remove goldeneye configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove goldeneye
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goldeneye
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goldeneye
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.