Lat Updated: 8/29/2024
There really isn’t anything shocking here. John would not be a package that would be installed on distros (excepting Kali)
Below we see an instance of the install. We note that apt provides an additional package (john-data) and provides a suggested package ( wordlist )
root@nodey:~# apt install john
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
john-data
Suggested packages:
wordlist
The following NEW packages will be installed:
john john-data
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,773 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,885 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 john-data all 1.8.0-4ubuntu3 [4,561 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 john amd64 1.8.0-4ubuntu3 [212 kB]
Fetched 4,773 kB in 2s (2,485 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package john-data.
(Reading database ... 129819 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../john-data_1.8.0-4ubuntu3_all.deb ...
Unpacking john-data (1.8.0-4ubuntu3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package john.
Preparing to unpack .../john_1.8.0-4ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking john (1.8.0-4ubuntu3) ...
Setting up john-data (1.8.0-4ubuntu3) ...
Setting up john (1.8.0-4ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-1) ...