How To Install capstone-tool on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capstone-tool on Kali Linux.

What is capstone-tool

capstone-tool is:

Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.

This package contains cstool, a command-line tool to disassemble hexadecimal strings.

There are three methods to install capstone-tool 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 capstone-tool Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install capstone-tool

Install capstone-tool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install capstone-tool

Install capstone-tool 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 capstone-tool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install capstone-tool

How To Uninstall capstone-tool on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the capstone-tool package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove capstone-tool

Uninstall capstone-tool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove capstone-tool

Remove capstone-tool Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge capstone-tool

Remove capstone-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge capstone-tool

Dependencies

capstone-tool have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• capstone-tool website

Summary

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