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| ====== How to extract John the Ripper source code from tarballs ====== | ====== How to extract John the Ripper source code from tarballs ====== | ||
| - | John the Ripper source code is distributed in the form of tarballs ([[wp>Tar_(file_format)|tar]] archives) compressed with either [[http://www.gzip.org|gzip]] or [[http://www.bzip.org|bzip2]]. On a [[wp>Unix-like|Unix-like]] system with [[http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/|GNU tar]] (or on [[http://www.cygwin.com|Cygwin]] if you use Windows), please use the following command for gzip-compressed tarballs: | + | John the Ripper source code is distributed in the form of tarballs ([[wp>Tar_(file_format)|tar]] archives) compressed with [[http://www.gzip.org|gzip]], [[http://tukaani.org/xz/|xz]], or (for older versions) [[http://www.bzip.org|bzip2]]. On a [[wp>Unix-like|Unix-like]] system with [[http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/|GNU tar]] (or on [[http://www.cygwin.com|Cygwin]] if you use Windows), please use the following command for gzip-compressed tarballs: |
| tar xzvf john-VERSION.tar.gz | tar xzvf john-VERSION.tar.gz | ||
| - | (where ''VERSION'' is a John the Ripper version number, such as 1.7.2). For bzip2-compressed tarballs use: | + | (where ''VERSION'' is a John the Ripper version number, such as 1.8.0). For xz-compressed tarballs use (note the uppercase "J"): |
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| + | tar xJvf john-VERSION.tar.xz | ||
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| + | For bzip2-compressed tarballs use (note the lowercase "j"): | ||
| tar xjvf john-VERSION.tar.bz2 | tar xjvf john-VERSION.tar.bz2 | ||
| - | On some commercial Unices, you might need to download and install gzip or bzip2 on your own (perhaps from a pre-compiled freeware archive for your flavor of Unix) and/or to use more complicated command-line syntax, such as: | + | On some commercial Unices, you might need to download and install gzip or xz or bzip2 on your own (perhaps from a pre-compiled freeware archive for your flavor of Unix) and/or to use more complicated command-line syntax, such as: |
| gzip -dc john-VERSION.tar.gz | tar xvf - | gzip -dc john-VERSION.tar.gz | tar xvf - | ||
| - | Please refer to man (manual) pages, [[http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/|texinfo]] documentation, and/or web pages on [[http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/|tar]], [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/|gzip]], and [[http://www.bzip.org/docs.html|bzip2]] for information on the command-line options. | + | Please refer to man (manual) pages, [[http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/|texinfo]] documentation, and/or web pages on [[http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/|tar]], [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/|gzip]], [[http://tukaani.org/xz/|xz]], and [[http://www.bzip.org/docs.html|bzip2]] for information on the command-line options. |
| ====== How to apply John the Ripper source code patches ====== | ====== How to apply John the Ripper source code patches ====== | ||
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