John the Ripper installieren

John the Ripper is usually pre-installed in Kali Linux but if you don’t have it yet, you can follow the steps below to install it on a Linux-based machine.

If you are facing any challenges with Kali Linux, I suggest you go through getting started with Kali Linux article.

There are numerous ways of installing John the Ripper on your machine but we will look at some of the basic ones:

1. Installing from the source

Open the terminal by simultaneously holding Ctrl+Alt+T and run the command below.

mkdir src

This creates a directory where we’ll store all our files.

Navigate to the src directory and clone John the Ripper repository as shown below.

cd src
git clone https://github.com/openwall/john.git

This creates a directory named John. To make it active, we need to run the command below.

cd john

Navigate to the src directory where we’ll set and configure the compilation sources.

cd src
./configure

Run the make command to compile source code into executable programs and libraries. This might take some time depending on your machine and the resources allocated to it.

make

Lastly, run the make install command to install John the Ripper.

make install

Run the commands below to see if the installation was successful.

cd ..
cd run
./john