HOWTO : Hydra on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS

THC-Hydra is a very fast network logon cracker which support many different services.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libssh-dev libidn11-dev libpcre3-dev libgtk2.0-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev libsvn-dev firebird2.1-dev libncp-dev libncurses5-dev

sudo -sH
cd /opt

wget http://www.thc.org/releases/hydra-7.4.2.tar.gz

tar -xvzf hydra-7.4.2.tar.gz

mv hydra-7.4.2 hydra
rm hydra-7.4.2.tar.gz

cd /opt/hydra

./configure
make
make install

Step 2 :

To run it in GUI in any directory.

xhydra

To run it in console in any directory.

hydra

That's all! See you.