Installation

pwntools is best supported on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution (Debian, Arch, FreeBSD, OSX, etc.).

Prerequisites

In order to get the most out of pwntools, you should have the following system libraries installed.

• Binutils
  • Ubuntu
  • Mac OS X
  • Alternate OSes
• Python Development Headers
  • Ubuntu
  • Mac OS X

Released Version

pwntools is available as a pip package.

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python2.7 python-pip python-dev git libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install --upgrade pwntools

Development

If you are hacking on Pwntools locally, you’ll want to do something like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools
$ pip install --upgrade --editable ./pwntools