Installation of SQLMap under Kali Linux

Although SQLMap comes preinstalled in Kali Linux, it is very buggy and is not at all recommended for real-world usage. That being said, we'll go ahead and install the stable version of SQLMap from their GitHub page:

https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/releases

At the time of writing this, the current stable version was 1.0, which was released on 27th February, 2016, and can be downloaded from this link:

https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/archive/1.0.zip

Let's fire up a terminal and download this zip through wget and extract it with unzip as follows:

wget https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/archive/1.0.zip -O sqlmap.zip
unzip sqlmap.zip

If you want the latest development version of SQLMap then it can be pulled through their GitHub as follows:

git clone https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git sqlmap-dev

Once done, we can change our directory to the sqlmap directory and run the following tool:

./sqlmap.py -h

Let's see what you get then...