How to Install and Uninstall crunch Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "crunch" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install crunch on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                crunch
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "crunch" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall crunch on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                crunch
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the crunch package on Kali Linux

Package: crunch
Version: 3.6-3
Installed-Size: 83
Maintainer: Marcio de Souza Oliveira
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29)
Suggests: bzip2, p7zip-full, xz-utils | lzma
Size: 30296
SHA256: 6386a20569295e5d37df99797e12ca36f97d733d35d87acdfcda7bc36b3c8336
SHA1: ed4325194e6066e6951537bd4d20fd022dc954f4
MD5sum: e250a0336f7a762be3b636fda079a714
Description: tool for creating wordlist
Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard
character set or any set of characters to be used in generating
the wordlists. The wordlists are created through combination and
permutation of a set of characters. You can determine the amount
of characters and list size.
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This program supports numbers and symbols, upper and lower case
characters separately and Unicode.
Description-md5:
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crunch-wordlist/
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/crunch/crunch_3.6-3_amd64.deb