How To Install bandit on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bandit on Kali Linux.

What is bandit

bandit is:

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an Abstract Syntaxt Tree (AST), and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has finished scanning all the files it generates a report.

This package is a metapackage to install the Python 2.7 or 3.x of bandit.

There are three methods to install bandit 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 bandit Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bandit

Install bandit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bandit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bandit

Install bandit 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 bandit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bandit

How To Uninstall bandit on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the bandit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bandit

Uninstall bandit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bandit

Remove bandit Configurations and Data

To remove bandit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bandit

Remove bandit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bandit

Dependencies

bandit have the following dependencies:

• python3-bandit

References

• bandit website

Summary

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