How To Install de4dot on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install de4dot on Ubuntu.

What is `de4dot`

de4dot is:

de4dot is a .NET deobfuscator and unpacker. It will try its best to restore a packed and obfuscated assembly to almost the original assembly.

Most of the obfuscation can be completely restored (eg. string encryption), but symbol renaming is impossible to restore since the original names aren’t (usually) part of the obfuscated assembly.

There are three methods to install de4dot on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install de4dot Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install de4dot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install de4dot

Install de4dot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install de4dot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install de4dot

Install de4dot Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install de4dot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install de4dot

How To Uninstall de4dot on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the de4dot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove de4dot

Uninstall de4dot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall de4dot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove de4dot

Remove de4dot Configurations and Data

To remove de4dot configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge de4dot

Remove de4dot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove de4dot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge de4dot

Dependencies

de4dot have the following dependencies:

References

de4dot website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install de4dot package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.