How To Install radare2 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2 on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radare2
Remove radare2 Configurations and Data
To remove radare2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radare2 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
