How To Install oscanner on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is oscanner

oscanner is:

Oscanner is an Oracle assessment framework developed in Java. It has a plugin-based architecture and comes with a couple of plugins that currently do:

• Sid Enumeration
• Passwords tests (common & dictionary)
• Enumerate Oracle version
• Enumerate account roles
• Enumerate account privileges
• Enumerate account hashes
• Enumerate audit information
• Enumerate password policies
• Enumerate database links

The results are given in a graphical java tree.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oscanner

Install oscanner Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install oscanner

Install oscanner 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 oscanner using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oscanner

How To Uninstall oscanner on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove oscanner

Uninstall oscanner And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oscanner

Remove oscanner Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge oscanner

Remove oscanner configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oscanner

Dependencies

oscanner have the following dependencies:

• default-jre

References

• oscanner website

Summary

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