How to Install and Uninstall dex2jar Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "dex2jar" package

Please follow the instructions below to install dex2jar on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                dex2jar
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "dex2jar" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall dex2jar on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                dex2jar
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dex2jar package on Kali Linux

Package: dex2jar
Version: 2.1~nightly-28-0kali2
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Kali Developers
Installed-Size: 5940
Depends: default-jre
Homepage: https://github.com/pxb1988/dex2jar/tree/2.x
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Filename: pool/main/d/dex2jar/dex2jar_2.1~nightly-28-0kali2_all.deb
Size: 4985468
SHA256: 515c4d77455ab61de4b22af32ed111830ba0859b2ef08a609a081ef9016a4a04
SHA1: fc258ea3e8cf17ca255982b4f44b70cd4764ec02
MD5sum: 176ed3963819f47275ce19adcf55c6b6
Description: Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
dex2jar contains 4 compments:
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dex-reader is designed to read the Dalvik Executable
(.dex/.odex) format. It has a light weight API similar
with ASM. An example here
dex-translator is designed to do the convert job. It reads
the dex instruction to dex-ir format, after some optimize,
convert to ASM format.
dex-ir used by dex-translator, is designed to represent
the dex instruction
dex-tools tools to work with .class files.
Description-md5: