How To Install theharvester on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install theharvester
on Kali Linux.
What is theharvester
theharvester is:
The package contains a tool for gathering subdomain names, e-mail addresses, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources (search engines, pgp key servers).
There are three methods to install theharvester
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 theharvester Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install theharvester
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install theharvester
Install theharvester Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install theharvester
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install theharvester
Install theharvester 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 theharvester
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install theharvester
How To Uninstall theharvester on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the theharvester
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove theharvester
Uninstall theharvester And Its Dependencies
To uninstall theharvester
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove theharvester
Remove theharvester Configurations and Data
To remove theharvester
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge theharvester
Remove theharvester configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove theharvester
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge theharvester
Dependencies
theharvester have the following dependencies:
- python3
- python3-aiodns
- python3-aiohttp
- python3-aiomultiprocess
- python3-aiosqlite
- python3-bs4
- python3-certifi
- python3-dnspython
- python3-lxml
- python3-netaddr
- python3-plotly
- python3-pyppeteer
- python3-requests
- python3-retrying
- python3-shodan
- python3-texttable
- python3-uvloop
- python3-yaml
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install theharvester
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.