How To Install httpry-tools on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install httpry-tools on Kali Linux.

What is httpry-tools

httpry-tools is:

httpry is a tool designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It is not intended to perform analysis itself, but instead to capture, parse and/or log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-time displaying the live traffic on the wire, or as a daemon process that logs to an output file. It is written to be as lightweight and flexible as possible, so that it can be easily adaptable to different applications. It does not display the raw HTTP data transferred, but instead focuses on parsing and displaying the request/response line along with associated header fields.

This package contains log parsing scripts written in Perl.

There are three methods to install httpry-tools 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 httpry-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install httpry-tools

Install httpry-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install httpry-tools

Install httpry-tools 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 httpry-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install httpry-tools

How To Uninstall httpry-tools on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the httpry-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove httpry-tools

Uninstall httpry-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove httpry-tools

Remove httpry-tools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge httpry-tools

Remove httpry-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge httpry-tools

Dependencies

httpry-tools have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• httpry-tools website

Summary

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