How To Install pack on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pack
on Kali Linux.
What is pack
pack is:
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.
There are three methods to install pack
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pack
Install pack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pack
Install pack Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pack
How To Uninstall pack on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the pack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pack
Uninstall pack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pack
Remove pack Configurations and Data
To remove pack
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pack
Remove pack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pack
Dependencies
pack have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pack
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.