Installing afl on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS
Example of installing afl on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS using the command sudo apt-get install afl.
Quick installation of afl:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: afl
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install afl
Package Details | |
| Package: | afl |
| Version: | 2.33b-4 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ |
| Description: | instrumentation-driven fuzzer for binary formats American fuzzy lop is a fuzzer that employs compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms to automatically discover clean, interesting test cases that trigger new internal states in the targeted binary. This substantially improves the functional coverage for the fuzzed code. The compact synthesized corpora produced by the tool are also useful for seeding other, more labor- or resource-intensive testing regimes down the road. . afl-fuzz is designed to be practical: it has modest performance overhead, uses a variety of highly effective fuzzing strategies, requires essentially no configuration, and seamlessly handles complex, real-world use cases - say, common image parsing or file compression libraries. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/devel |
How to install afl on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If afl is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L afl' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L afl dpkg-query: package 'afl' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing afl:
After system update use the following command to install afl:
sudo apt-get install afl
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove afl from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the afl from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the afl following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove afl
Following command is used to remove the afl package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove afl
This will remove afl and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing afl with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge afl
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove afl
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with afl package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.