How To Install amass-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amass-common on Kali Linux.

What is amass-common

amass-common is:

This package contains a tool to help information security professionals perform network mapping of attack surfaces and perform external asset discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques.

This package contains several wordlists for performing DNS name alterations and brute forcing.

There are three methods to install amass-common 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 amass-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install amass-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install amass-common

Install amass-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install amass-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install amass-common

Install amass-common 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 amass-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install amass-common

How To Uninstall amass-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the amass-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove amass-common

Uninstall amass-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall amass-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove amass-common

Remove amass-common Configurations and Data

To remove amass-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge amass-common

Remove amass-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove amass-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amass-common

Dependencies

amass-common have the following dependencies:

References

• amass-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amass-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.