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kali-docker-essential-tools
🛠️ CLI tool to display and install essential Kali Linux packages — perfect for Docker or Debian-based environments, minimal installs, or custom setups.
📦 What is this?
essential-kali-tools is a CLI utility that:
- 📋 Shows a table of essential pentesting/networking tools
- 🔧 Installs tools via
apt-get, either all or specific ones - 💻 Perfect for Docker images, minimal Kali/Ubuntu setups, or automation
🚀 Features
- List commonly-used pentesting tools
- Install all or selected packages
- Clear terminal UI with progress messages
- Lightweight and scriptable
📚 Package List
Networking Tools
- openssh-server: SSH server to allow secure remote login
- iputils-ping: Provides the ping command to test network connectivity
- net-tools: Legacy networking tools (e.g.,
ifconfig) - iproute2: Modern networking tools (e.g.,
ipcommand) - nmap: Network scanner for discovering hosts and services
- tcpdump: Packet capture tool for network analysis
- netcat-openbsd: Network connections (
nc) for troubleshooting and data transfer - curl: Command-line tool for transferring data with URLs
- wget: Non-interactive network downloader
Exploit Database Tools
- exploitdb: CLI tool to search Exploit-DB
Password Cracking Tools
- wordlists: Installs common cracking wordlists (e.g.,
rockyou.txt) - hash-identifier: Identifies hash types (e.g., MD5, SHA1) based on length and format
- john: Fast password cracking tool
- hydra: Network logon cracker supporting many protocols
- hashcat: GPU/CPU password cracker for many hash types
- fcrackzip: Fast ZIP password cracker using brute-force or wordlists
Web Application Security Tools
- ffuf: Web fuzzer for directories, subdomains, and parameters
- dirbuster: Brute-forces hidden web files and directories using wordlists
- metasploit-framework: Powerful pentesting framework for exploits, payloads, and scanning
Other Useful Tools
- git: Version control system for code management
- dnsutils: DNS lookup tools (
dig,nslookup) - binutils: Binary inspection tools for disassembling and analyzing executables
- vim: Advanced text editor for code and configuration files
- python3: Python 3 interpreter for scripting
- ruby: Ruby interpreter for scripting
- openssl: SSL/TLS tools for encryption and certificate management
- screen: Terminal multiplexer for managing multiple sessions
- aircrack-ng: Wireless auditing tools for cracking WiFi passwords and analyzing networks
🧑💻 Requirements
- Node.js 18+
- npm (comes bundled with Node.js)
📥 Install Node.js (Kali Linux / Debian / Ubuntu)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs npm -y📦 USAGE
2. Install the CLI tool globally
🐧 For Kali Linux, Docker, or Debian-based environments
On most Unix-like systems, you might need to use sudo to install globally due to permission restrictions:
npm install -g kali-docker-essential-tools3. Run scans
- 🔎 Show Available Packages
kalitools show- 📦 Install All Packages
kalitools install- 🛠️ Install Selected Packages
kalitools install -n <package-name> <package-name> ...
# or
kalitools install --name <package-name> <package-name> ...- 🆘 Show Help
kalitools -h