How To Install radare2 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2
on Kali Linux.
What is radare2
radare2 is:
The project aims to create a complete, portable, multi-architecture, unix-like toolchain for reverse engineering.
It is composed by an hexadecimal editor (radare) with a wrapped IO layer supporting multiple backends for local/remote files, debugger (OS X, BSD, Linux, W32), stream analyzer, assembler/disassembler (rasm) for x86, ARM, PPC, m68k, Java, MSIL, SPARC, code analysis modules and scripting facilities. A bindiffer named radiff, base converter (rax), shellcode development helper (rasc), a binary information extractor supporting PE, mach0, ELF, class, etc. named rabin, and a block-based hash utility called rahash.
There are three methods to install radare2
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 radare2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radare2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radare2
Install radare2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radare2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radare2
Install radare2 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 radare2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radare2
How To Uninstall radare2 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the radare2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radare2
Uninstall radare2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radare2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radare2
Remove radare2 Configurations and Data
To remove radare2
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radare2
Remove radare2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radare2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radare2
Dependencies
radare2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.