Installing additional weapons

Although the latest version of Kali Linux always comes with many security tools, sometimes you need to add additional software tools due to the following reasons:

  • The latest version of the tool has not been included in Kali Linux yet
  • You want to have the latest version of the software that is not available in the Kali Linux repository

Our suggestion is to try to search for the software package in the repository first. If you can find the package in the repository, just use that package. However, if you can't find it in the repository, you may want to get the software package from the author's website and install it yourself.

Based on our experience, we suggest that you use the software in the repository as much as you ...

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