HOWTO : John on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.


Install

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev

cd ~
mkdir arsenal
cd arsenal

wget http://www.openwall.com/john/j/john-1.8.0-jumbo-1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf john-1.8.0-jumbo-1.tar.gz
cd john-1.8.0-jumbo-1/src

./configure
make clean
make

cd ../run
./john --help


* you can also install by sudo apt-get install john john-data


Update/Upgrade

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Go to Official site to download the source and compile it as mentioned above.


Reference

Please install Nvidia or AMD Graphic related drivers before installing John when necessary.


That's all! See you.