Notes

Package Management

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Its crucial for administrators to build/upgrade/maintain our penetration testing tools. Helps to utilize various tools to install, updates and remove packages. Packages are archives that contain binaries of software, configuration files, information about dependencies and keep track of updates and upgrades.

  • dpkg Tool to install, build, remove Debian packages. The more user-friendly for dpkg is apt
  • apt Provides a high-level command-line interface for package management
  • aptitude alternative to apt and is a high-level interface to packages
  • snap P.M. Enables the secure distribution of latest apps & utilities for cloud, desktop, ioTs
  • gem Font-end to RubyGems a P.M. for Ruby.
  • pip python package installer recommended for installing any python packages.

Advanced Package Manager (APT)

apt manages packages and dependencies on Debian-based systems which relies on software repositories, categorized as stable, testing and unstable. Unlike, dpkg which only depends on the .deb installation files, which can cause dependency issues. The repositories are saved in /etc/apt/sourcs.list.d/*

workstation@htb[/htb]$ apt-cache search impacket
impacket-scripts - Links to useful impacket scripts examples
polenum - Extracts the password policy from a Windows system
<SNIP>
 
workstation@htb[/htb]$ apt list --installed
Listing... Done
accountsservice/rolling,now 0.6.55-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
adapta-gtk-theme/rolling,now 3.95.0.11-1 all [installed]
<SNIP>
 
workstation@htb[/htb]$ sudo apt install impacket-scripts -y
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  impacket-scripts
<SNIP>

Git & DPKG

workstation@htb[/htb]$ git clone <github-url>
workstation@htb[/htb]$ sudo dpkg -i <.deb package>

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