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create setup.py or pyproject.toml and support system wide installation #596

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blshkv opened this issue Mar 21, 2020 · 0 comments
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blshkv commented Mar 21, 2020

This is a common problem that many tools which we want to distribute do not support system wide installation. Some of these tools provide their own "install.sh" or "setup.sh" with a distro specific commands (sudo apt-install) to install dependencies instead of a proper setup.py/pyproject.toml (PEP 517).
With a proper setup.py script, an end user can install it using the following single command:
python3 setup.py install --user. It also a distro friendly and makes life for maintainers easier.

The end result, a FHS compliant directory structure should be created.
In case if software produce any output, a local user directory should be used, such as ~./<software>/

There are some custom cases (installing non-python packages, data files etc) which have been resolved in other packages. Bellow, are reference points on such bug reports with solutions (patches)

derv82/wifite2#102
laramies/theHarvester#52
commixproject/commix#433
pwndbg/pwndbg#598
j3ssie/osmedeus#13 (failed to fix)
BC-SECURITY/Empire#39
s0lst1c3/eaphammer#73
Ekultek/WhatWaf#628 (failed and refused to fix)
trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit#622 (failed to fix)
xmendez/wfuzz#93
Veil-Framework/Veil#243
andresriancho/w3af#17500
shenril/Sitadel#36
swisskyrepo/Wordpresscan#37
sqlmapproject/sqlmap#746
Arachni/arachni#474
owtf/owtf#725
https://github.com/entynetproject/proton/issues/4
aboul3la/Sublist3r#129
mschwager/fierce#25 (failed to fix)
jborean93/ntlm-auth#6
Veil-Framework/Veil#243
ShielderSec/webtech#15
byt3bl33d3r/CrackMapExec#415
dpnishant/appmon#109
MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF#1585
maurosoria/dirsearch#176
savio-code/fern-wifi-cracker#152
hugsy/gef#759 (failed to fix)
lgandx/Responder#175 (refused to fix)
shenril/Sitadel#48

@blshkv blshkv closed this as completed Mar 21, 2020
@pentoo pentoo deleted a comment from AmericanY May 14, 2020
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@blshkv blshkv changed the title create setup.py and support system wide installation create setup.py or pyproject.toml and support system wide installation Nov 20, 2021
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