Installation
Pwntools is best supported on 64-bit Ubuntu LTS releases (14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04). Most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution (Debian, Arch, FreeBSD, OSX, etc.).
Prerequisites
In order to get the most out of pwntools
, you should have the
following system libraries installed.
Released Version
pwntools is available as a pip
package for both Python2 and Python3.
Python3
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev git libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pwntools
Python2 (Deprecated)
NOTE: Pwntools maintainers STRONGLY recommend using Python3 for all future Pwntools-based scripts and projects.
Additionally, due to pip dropping support for Python2, a specfic version of pip must be installed.
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python python-pip python-dev git libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
$ python2 -m pip install --upgrade pip==20.3.4
$ python2 -m pip install --upgrade pwntools
Command-Line Tools
When installed with sudo
the above commands will install Pwntools’ command-line tools to somewhere like /usr/bin
.
However, if you run as an unprivileged user, you may see a warning message that looks like this:
WARNING: The scripts asm, checksec, common, constgrep, cyclic, debug, disablenx, disasm,
elfdiff, elfpatch, errno, hex, main, phd, pwn, pwnstrip, scramble, shellcraft, template,
unhex, update and version are installed in '/home/user/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Follow the instructions listed and add ~/.local/bin
to your $PATH
environment variable.
Development
If you are hacking on Pwntools locally, you’ll want to do something like this:
$ git clone https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools
$ pip install --upgrade --editable ./pwntools