How To Install jdresolve on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is jdresolve

jdresolve is:

The jdresolve application resolves IP addresses into hostnames. To reduce the time necessary to resolve large batches of addresses, jdresolve opens many concurrent connections to the DNS servers, and keeps a large number of text lines in memory. These lines can have any content, as long as the IP addresses are the first field to the left. This is usually the case with most formats of HTTP and FTP log files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install jdresolve

Install jdresolve Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install jdresolve

Install jdresolve 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 jdresolve using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install jdresolve

How To Uninstall jdresolve on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove jdresolve

Uninstall jdresolve And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove jdresolve

Remove jdresolve Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge jdresolve

Remove jdresolve configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jdresolve

Dependencies

jdresolve have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• jdresolve website

Summary

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