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I want to know if there is any way to install Kali tools like sqlmap, nikto, john, aircrack-ng, … on Ubuntu 12.04?

If yes, then how should I proceed?

Best Answer

The only current version of Ubuntu this works for is 12.04 and the repos haven't been updated since 2013. Don't use it.

For 14.04+, please see the second answer.

Copy the following Kali repositories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux2/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux2/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION         main 
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION main

Replace the text YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION based on your Ubuntu version.

Ubuntu 12.04: precise
Ubuntu 12.10: quantal
Ubuntu 13.04: raring

Assuming that you are using Ubuntu 13.04, your repositories would be

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux2/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux2/ubuntu raring main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/wagungs/kali-linux/ubuntu raring main

Note: If you're an Ubuntu 14.04 user, you can use raring, as Trusty version of Kali repositories are not released

Update sources

Open your sources using the command

sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-tools.list

Now, gedit editor will open the file kali-tools.list. Paste the above code at the end of your file and Save.

Copy the PGP Key

Copy the Key below and save it as key.pgp text file in your desktop.

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
 Version: SKS 1.1.4
 Comment: Hostname: keyserver.ubuntu.com

 mI0ET324YwEEANbSlISrOlAGjxgFRxiN6jk0JIl/vxQ8lapRdxZ4DHDAQdXbX4AuigMBkP5e
 sOxhMpDnkgMRtEVpaBMdQheA0/431pPQYqkr3jdeZw5JS5opiyJ4qr/QrcoSFHSluEkWkbZ6
 RYOkA25vW31KK2FB2LQVRYk580llXAVgIUznm2ATABEBAAG0GExhdW5jaHBhZCBQUEEgZm9y
 IHdhZ3VuZ4i4BBMBAgAiBQJPfbhjAhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRAb
 IuuNj9/bVxabBADSGN8cp+hqkdZqwq263wdz/UGsiuB1bCrH06/HznC/ZC5rjfH3aQ1Dwwag
 zYCrSD3c0cKNAqD10009N76RMlzZBH8kKL9khH3zPL/k4/lYuVP7y6NKFbBsnawEUc0mWcCa
 mH4ScTdWWPXP/mOQiUUjnQ1bZhzpcbQOb+hEUAqExg==
 =fJ+8
 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Add PGP Key in apt

Open terminal and type

cd Desktop
sudo apt-key add key.pgp

If your key addition is successful, you will see Ok.

Now update your apt-get repositories using the command

sudo apt-get update

Install Synaptic Package Manager

Use the command

sudo apt-get install synaptic

If you already have Synaptic installed, you may skip this step.

Install Kali Tools

Now open Synaptic Package manager and click on Origin. You can see 2 Kali repositories by names

LP-PPA-wagungs-kali-linux/raring
LP-PPA-wagungs-kali-linux2/raring

Click on the repositories and install the Tools from the list.

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Updates

The LionSec Katoolin GitHub webpage clearly warns Katoolin users to be careful when updating software.

Before updating your system, please remove all Kali-linux repositories to avoid any kind of problem.

All kinds of problems can occur if you don't do this.

Software installation

Katoolin is a nice package management tool, however because Katoolin is a package management tool, problems can come in groups of packages instead of one package at a time, especially if you try to grab all the Kali linux tools at the same time. Many of the tools in Katoolin are otherwise only available as .tar.gz archives, and in order to install them, you would have to track them down and compile them one by one. Before you compile a .tar.gz, you should check whether the executable is provided by another package from the default Ubuntu repositories.

In Katoolin Kali linux tools come from multiple repositories and in these repositories there are more than 300 tools. Some of these tools are duplicates of tools that can be installed from the default Ubuntu repositories, and sometimes they are more up-to-date versions having different dependencies than the same tools from the default Ubuntu repositories. Some tools in Katoolin are packaged as standalone tools, whereas in Ubuntu the same tool is bundled into a larger package that contains additional software. When you add a new Kali repository apt doesn't always know if you are adding conflicting packages to your system's list of software, but you'll find out about it when you try to install the packages. Katoolin is a cross platform package management tool, and the same package that installs perfectly on another operating system can cause errors when trying to install it in Ubuntu.

In Katoolin tools can be installed in three different hierarchical levels of grouping.

Install all Kali linux tools.
Select a category and install all Kali linux tools in the selected category.
Select a single tool and install it.

Don't be reckless. In order to install Kali linux tools in a safer way, don't install any tools that you don't need. The more Kali repositories that you add to your software sources and the more Kali linux tools that you install, the higher the probability is of breaking something.