How To Install hcxkeys on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hcxkeys
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is hcxkeys
hcxkeys is:
Small set of tools to generate plainmasterkeys (rainbowtables) and hashes for the use with latest hashcat and latest John the Ripper.
The package provides two binaries:
- wlangenpmk for CPU calculations.
- wlangenpmkocl for GPU calculations.
In order to use the GPU, the correspondent OpenCL drivers for your GPU model should be installed.
There are three methods to install hcxkeys
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hcxkeys Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hcxkeys
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hcxkeys
Install hcxkeys Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hcxkeys
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hcxkeys
Install hcxkeys 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hcxkeys
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hcxkeys
How To Uninstall hcxkeys on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the hcxkeys
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hcxkeys
Uninstall hcxkeys And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hcxkeys
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hcxkeys
Remove hcxkeys Configurations and Data
To remove hcxkeys
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hcxkeys
Remove hcxkeys configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hcxkeys
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hcxkeys
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hcxkeys
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.