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We're going to start by looking at some tips on installation

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to make sure we can get LaZagne running.

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The GitHub repository has an installation guide for this,

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which involves installing Python and the required dependencies.

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That's here.

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Next, we'll look at creating the Windows executable file.

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You could install Python on a Windows machine that you're targeting,

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but an executable file makes things much simpler.

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You can get a copy of the executable from the GitHub repository here; however,

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the releases aren't up to date, and the current one I see is over a year old,

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which means it's missing a lot of the recent code changes.

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The solution to this is to build it ourselves.

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It is possible to take the Python code and create an executable file from it.

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There is a guide for that on GitHub too,

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but it didn't quite work for me, so I've got some additional guidance.

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To start the installation,

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we need to get the latest version of Python from python.org.

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If you're using Windows, make sure you don't get it from the Microsoft Store,

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as it's currently got some permissions problems.

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Now, we need to clone the repository from GitHub.

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Git can be used for any of the operating systems we might use for this,

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and the syntax is typically very similar.

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To clone, we use git clone and the URL of the repository.

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Now we move into the directory and take a look.

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Here we can see a file named requirements.txt which contains a list

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of the dependencies required for LaZagne to work.

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We're going to use pip to install those requirements,

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which works by giving pip the file.

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The use of pip and Python are a little outside the scope of this course,

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but that should give you enough to get running.

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Now, we want to go to the Windows directory in the repository.

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A quick call to python and we can see it's working,

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showing that we're using version 2.4.4 of LaZagne.

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At this point, we could collect passwords from this Windows machine.

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For Windows,

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installing Python is additional work and complexity

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compared to using an executable.

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It is, however, less likely to be picked up by antivirus.

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To create an executable, we need to start with a couple more pip installs.

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The first is pyinstaller.

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We've already got a text file called lazagne.spec.

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I'll make my version of that available in the course files.

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This differs from the GitHub repository, which includes some Windows DLLs here.

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They cause compile failures for me.

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I remove them.

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Finally, still in the Windows directory, we create the executable.

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Then if we go to the dist directory, we'll see our new executable file.

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We can then run it to see that it works.

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We'll save running it properly for the next demo.

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We can now use this on Windows machines without having to install Python.

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This file will get picked up by antivirus unless you have

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disabled it or used evasion techniques.