How To Install hellfire on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install hellfire on Kali Linux. hellfire is PATHspider Effects List Resolver

Introduction

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

What is hellfire

hellfire is:

Hellfire is a parallelised DNS resolver. It is written in Go and for the purpose of generating input lists to PATHspider, though may be useful for other applications. It supports fetching commonly used domain lists in Internet Measurement Research.

Additional metadata may be looked up from RIPEstat using canid integration.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install hellfire

Install hellfire Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install hellfire

Install hellfire 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 hellfire using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hellfire

How To Uninstall hellfire on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove hellfire

Uninstall hellfire And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hellfire

Remove hellfire Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge hellfire

Remove hellfire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hellfire

Dependencies

hellfire have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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