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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0009223Kali LinuxNew Tool Requestspublic2025-07-15 09:06
ReporterDetectItEasy Assigned Todaniruiz  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Summary0009223: detect-it-easy - Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Description

Hello Kali Linux Team,

I am Benjamin from the Detect It Easy Team,

I wanted to ask if its possible to add Detect It Easy natively to Kali Linux? So it comes pre-installed with the operating system.

You can find an already existing build process under Kali Linux over here: https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy/blob/master/docs/BUILD.md Kali Linux is mentioned at the first two links at the beginning.
It would be useful for Binary/Malware analystic.

I am not sure if its the correct way to submit the feature request over this mail, if preferred we can do it also instead of an GitLab ticket, if thats the correct way?

If you need help or any other information please let me know :)

Have an nice day

Best Regards
Benjamin Funke

0009222 was accidently Feature Request not New Tool Request

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daniruiz

daniruiz

2025-06-19 20:54

manager   ~0020691

Heya, we can package this, yes.
It doesn't need to be preinstalled but we can package it so people can easily install it via apt. We have to be careful about what we include in the default installer, as it can get too large otherwise. But after being packaged it will appear in our kali-tools documentation pages, so that people can find it easily.

If you could follow this guide to complete the information we need to package the tool, that would really help https://www.kali.org/docs/tools/submitting-tools/

DetectItEasy

DetectItEasy

2025-06-19 21:07

reporter   ~0020692

Infos:

daniruiz

daniruiz

2025-07-15 09:05

manager   ~0020734

This tool is now packaged https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/detect-it-easy/ and should be ready in kali-rolling in a few days

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-06-19 19:47 DetectItEasy New Issue
2025-06-19 20:49 daniruiz Summary Detect It Easy Support => detect-it-easy - Program for determining types of files for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
2025-06-19 20:54 daniruiz Note Added: 0020691
2025-06-19 20:54 daniruiz Assigned To => daniruiz
2025-06-19 20:54 daniruiz Status new => assigned
2025-06-19 21:07 DetectItEasy Note Added: 0020692
2025-07-15 09:05 daniruiz Note Added: 0020734
2025-07-15 09:06 daniruiz Status assigned => resolved
2025-07-15 09:06 daniruiz Resolution open => fixed