How to Install CyberChef on Alpine Linux Latest

CyberChef is a powerful and highly-flexible web application for data analysis, encryption, encoding, and decoding. Its open-source and free nature make it suitable for various security and forensics-related tasks.

This tutorial will guide you through the steps necessary to install CyberChef on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, you need to ensure that your system has the following prerequisites:

Steps

To install CyberChef on Alpine Linux Latest, you will need to follow these steps:

  1. Open up the Terminal on your Alpine Linux system.

  2. Use the following command to update the Alpine package repositories:

    sudo apk update
    
  3. Install the npm package manager using the following command:

    sudo apk add npm
    
  4. Install git using the following command:

    sudo apk add git
    
  5. Clone the CyberChef repository using the git command:

    git clone https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef.git
    
  6. Navigate to the cloned CyberChef directory using the following command:

    cd CyberChef/
    
  7. Install the CyberChef dependencies using the following command:

    npm install
    
  8. Build CyberChef using the following command:

    npm run build
    
  9. Start CyberChef using the following command:

    npm start
    
  10. You can now access CyberChef web application by opening your web browser and visiting the following URL:

    http://localhost:8080
    

Conclusion

That is how you can install CyberChef on Alpine Linux Latest. You can now use CyberChef web application for data analysis, encryption, encoding, and decoding.

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