How To Install dirsearch on Debian 12

Learn how to install dirsearch on Debian 12 with this tutorial. dirsearch is Web path scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dirsearch on Debian 12.

What is `dirsearch`

dirsearch is:

This package contains is a command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.

As a feature-rich tool, dirsearch gives users the opportunity to perform a complex web content discovering, with many vectors for the wordlist, high accuracy, impressive performance, advanced connection/request settings, modern brute-force techniques and nice output.

There are three methods to install dirsearch on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install dirsearch Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dirsearch

Install dirsearch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dirsearch

Install dirsearch Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install dirsearch

How To Uninstall dirsearch on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove dirsearch

Uninstall dirsearch And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dirsearch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dirsearch

Remove dirsearch Configurations and Data

To remove dirsearch configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dirsearch

Remove dirsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dirsearch

Dependencies

dirsearch have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dirsearch package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.