How To Install yara-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yara-doc on Kali Linux.

What is yara-doc

yara-doc is:

YARA is a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA, it is possible to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples of those families. Each description consists of a set of strings and a Boolean expression which determines its logic.

Complex and powerful rules can be created by using binary strings with wild-cards, case-insensitive text strings, special operators, regular expressions and many other features.

This package contains the documentation in HTML format.

There are three methods to install yara-doc 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 yara-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install yara-doc

Install yara-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install yara-doc

Install yara-doc 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 yara-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yara-doc

How To Uninstall yara-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the yara-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yara-doc

Uninstall yara-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yara-doc

Remove yara-doc Configurations and Data

To remove yara-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yara-doc

Remove yara-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yara-doc

Dependencies

yara-doc have the following dependencies:

• libjs-sphinxdoc

References

• yara-doc website

Summary

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