How To Install skipfish on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is skipfish

skipfish is:

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install skipfish

Install skipfish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install skipfish

Install skipfish 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 skipfish using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install skipfish

How To Uninstall skipfish on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove skipfish

Uninstall skipfish And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove skipfish

Remove skipfish Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge skipfish

Remove skipfish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skipfish

Dependencies

skipfish have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libidn11
• libpcre3
• libssl1.1
• zlib1g

References

• skipfish website

Summary

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