How To Install skipfish on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skipfish on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 skipfish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skipfish
How To Uninstall skipfish on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skipfish
Remove skipfish Configurations and Data
To remove skipfish configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skipfish package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
