Katoolin, install all Kali Linux tools on Ubuntu

Katoolin has been developed in Python and it's freely available on Github for Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Besides installing the Kali linux tools, Katoolin also allows to install its repositories, its menu and a classic menu for Unity users.

Many users are looking for the best way to install the Kali Linux tools, which each one needs in a simple way and without having to install the distribution to be able to use them. As an operating system to use on a daily basis, it leaves a lot to be desired, in my view. And by chance I came across Katoolin.

Many people download Kali linux and don't use half of its tools, so why not install only the tools we need? Katoolin is an installation script made by lionsec. This lists the tools by categories and allows us to choose which ones to install in our system in a simple way. As is to be expected, this will allow us to avoid having to compile one by one, since it is too laborious work.

What is Kali Linux?

For those who do not know yet, Kali Linux is a distribution based on Debian GNU / Linux designed mainly for the audit and computer security in general. This distribution is maintained by Offensive Security Ltd. This team has developed the distribution from the rewrite of BackTrack. We could consider it as the predecessor of Kali Linux.

The great asset of Kali Linux is that it brings pre-installed more than 600 programs including: Nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a sniffer), John the Ripper (a password cracker) and the Aircrack-ng suite (software for security tests in wireless networks) among many others.

Kali Linux can be used from a Live CD, live-usb and it can also be installed as the main operating system, although as I have already said this is highly inadvisable.

Install Katoolin

To install Katoolin from our team from GitHub we just have to open the terminal and add the following script to it:

sudo su
git clone https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git && cp katoolin/katoolin.py /usr/bin/katoolin
chmod +x /usr/bin/katoolin
sudo katoolin

Once installed we are going to launch the script with the command:

sudo katoolin

Once the application is launched, we will be shown a list of 5 options. But to install the Kali Linux tools on our Ubuntu, we will only use the first two.

1. Add the Kali Linux repositories and update the list of repositories.
2. See the tool categories.
3. Install "classicmenu indicator".
4. Install Kali linux menu.
5. It will show us the commands that we can use during the execution of the script.

Install Kali Linux Tools

In order to install the Kali linux tools, you must first add their repositories. Before proceeding with the repository update, it would be advisable to take a look at the sources.list to avoid duplication, which causes problems when updating.

When we have verified that there is no duplication of repositories, we will start with option "1". Within this are other options that allow us to add the Kali Linux repositories to our Sourcers.list. On the next screen we will choose option 1 again.

We will continue the installation by updating the repositories of our system by selecting option 2, which in a few words does a “sudo apt-get update”. We will see in the console how the repositories are updated.

If everything goes well, we write "back" to return to the previous screen. In it we are going to select option "2" to show us the categories of the available tools.

Once here, we can install all the tools included in all categories by pressing "0". Or we can select a category to then choose the tools we want to install.

Within a category, we can press "0" to install all the tools included in the selected category. We can also write the number of the tool that we are interested in installing.

Once the operations are finished, we only have to exit the script. Now we can see that we already have the Kali Linux tools in our Ubuntu.