How To Install dirsearch on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dirsearch
on Kali Linux.
What is dirsearch
dirsearch is:
This package contains is a command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.
As a feature-rich tool, dirsearch gives users the opportunity to perform a complex web content discovering, with many vectors for the wordlist, high accuracy, impressive performance, advanced connection/request settings, modern brute-force techniques and nice output.
There are three methods to install dirsearch
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 dirsearch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dirsearch
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dirsearch
Install dirsearch Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dirsearch
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dirsearch
Install dirsearch 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 dirsearch
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dirsearch
How To Uninstall dirsearch on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the dirsearch
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dirsearch
Uninstall dirsearch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dirsearch
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dirsearch
Remove dirsearch Configurations and Data
To remove dirsearch
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dirsearch
Remove dirsearch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dirsearch
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dirsearch
Dependencies
dirsearch have the following dependencies:
- python3-chardet
- python3-colorama
- python3-requests
- python3-certifi
- python3-cryptography
- python3-socks
- python3-urllib3
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dirsearch
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.