How To Install nasty on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install nasty on Kali Linux. nasty is tool which helps you to recover your GPG passphrase

Introduction

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

What is nasty

nasty is:

Nasty is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in case you forget or lost it. The following features will make things easier:

  • set minimum/maximum length of the passphrase
  • incremental mode, random mode or reads a file for guessing
  • charset filter

This package is useful in forensics investigations.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nasty

Install nasty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nasty

Install nasty 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 nasty using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nasty

How To Uninstall nasty on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove nasty

Uninstall nasty And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nasty

Remove nasty Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nasty

Remove nasty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nasty

Dependencies

nasty have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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