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update feature is disabled.
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<p>
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- There are some differences between each package :
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+ There are some differences between the packages :
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<itemize>
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<item>The source packages (gzip, bzip2 and zip) have all features. They
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<item>The Debian and Red Hat installation packages (deb and rpm) are
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compliant with the Linux distributions' packaging guidelines. This implies
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that they do not support the update features and do not include
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- third-party softwares Churrasco (for token kidnapping, see below) and UPX.
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+ third-party softwares Churrasco (used to perform Windows token kidnapping,
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+ see below) and UPX (used to pack the Metasploit payload stager in some
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+ cases, see below).
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<item>The Windows binary package (exe) can't update itself and does not
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- support the takeover out-of-band features because they rely on Metasploit
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- and Metasploit's msfconsole and msfcli are not supported on the native
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- Windows Ruby interpreter.
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+ support the takeover out-of-band features because they rely on
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+ Metasploit's <tt>msfcli</tt> which is not available for Windows.
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</itemize>
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+ <p>
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+ It is therefore recommended to download any of the source packages and run
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+ it either from a shell like Bash on Unix and Mac OSX or from Cygwin on
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+ Windows.
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<sect>License and copyright
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