How To Install metagoofil on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is metagoofil

metagoofil is:

Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,docx,pptx,xlsx) belonging to a target company.

Metagoofil will perform a search in Google to identify and download the documents to local disk. Metagoofil does no longer extract the metadata. See /usr/share/doc/metagoofil/README.md.gz.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install metagoofil

Install metagoofil Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install metagoofil

Install metagoofil 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 metagoofil using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install metagoofil

How To Uninstall metagoofil on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove metagoofil

Uninstall metagoofil And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove metagoofil

Remove metagoofil Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge metagoofil

Remove metagoofil configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metagoofil

Dependencies

metagoofil have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• metagoofil website

Summary

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