Gobuster Tool Installation with GO language


Gobuster Tool


Gobuster is a tool used to brute-force:
  • URIs (directories and files) in web sites.
  • DNS subdomains (with wildcard support).
  • Virtual Host names on target web servers.

To install from scratch first we need to install GO language in first step then Gobuster in second step as follows.



First Step = Install GO language first.  As gobuster is developed on GO language.


1. Download this installer with the help of wget command:-

          wget -q https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/getgo/installer_linux


2. Provide executable permissions

         chmod +x installer_linux


3. Install as mentioned below
           ./installer_linux



4. run     source /root/.bash_profile

Second Step = Now we need to download and install gobuster

1. Download gobuster from git

        git clone https://github.com/OJ/gobuster.git

2. Go inside gobuster directory and type below mentioned command to build the gobuster program

       go get && go build

3. Now install the built program.

      go install

4. run gobuster,  if you followed every step mentioned above it will launch without any issue.




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