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I'm a developer with over 10 years experience who wants to transition to infosec. This blog is an informal record of my experiments with OWASP's Mutillidae II, a web application exhibiting a multitude of deliberate vulnerabilities. I will also take Offensive Security's PWK training course and get the OSCP certificate

Monday, 29 August 2016

Install PyCharm python IDE in Kali

I'm used to writing Java in a nice IDE, i.e. IntelliJ IDEA.  I don't know Python (I usually use bash for scripting in Linux), but I wanted to learn some.  To write Python scripts I wanted something a bit nicer than vi/gedit/emacs.  PyCharm is from the same company as IDEA.
  1. Download PyCharm (Community Edition is free.  Note that I had burpsuite running and it didn't seem to like large downloads, I had to exit burp and undo my proxy settings temporarily)
  2. cd Downloads
  3. gunzip pyc*gz
  4. tar xvf pyc*tar
  5. ./pyc<tab>/bin/pycharm.sh &
You may need to upgrade Kali to use a Java 8 JVM, I did.

If you want any HTTP[S] requests you make to go via a proxy (such as Burp):
  1. Configure the system proxy
  2. (PyCharm) File => Settings => Appearance and Behavior => System Settings => HTTP Proxy, "Auto-detect proxy settings" (no script location)

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