The recommended Python version to run oletools is the latest Python 3.x (3.7 for now). Python 2.7 is still supported, but as it will become end of life in 2020 (see https://pythonclock.org/), it is highly recommended to switch to Python 3 now.
Pip is included with Python since version 2.7.9 and 3.4. If it is not installed on your system, either upgrade Python or see https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
To download and install/update the latest release version of oletools, run the following command in a shell:
sudo -H pip install -U oletools
Replace pip
by pip3
or pip2
to install on a specific Python version.
Important: Since version 0.50, pip will automatically create convenient command-line scripts in /usr/local/bin to run all the oletools from any directory.
To download and install/update the latest release version of oletools, run the following command in a cmd window:
pip install -U oletools
Replace pip
by pip3
or pip2
to install on a specific Python version.
Note: with Python 3, you may need to open a cmd window with Administrator privileges in order to run pip and install for all users. If that is not possible, you may also install only for the current user by adding the --user
option:
pip3 install -U --user oletools
Important: Since version 0.50, pip will automatically create convenient command-line scripts to run all the oletools from any directory: olevba, mraptor, oleid, rtfobj, etc.
If you want to benefit from the latest improvements in the development version, you may also use pip:
sudo -H pip install -U https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zip
Replace pip
by pip3
or pip2
to install on a specific Python version.
pip install -U https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zip
Replace pip
by pip3
or pip2
to install on a specific Python version.
Note: with Python 3, you may need to open a cmd window with Administrator privileges in order to run pip and install for all users. If that is not possible, you may also install only for the current user by adding the --user
option:
pip3 install -U --user https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zip
First, download the oletools archive on a computer with Internet access: * Latest stable version: from https://pypi.org/project/oletools/ or https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/releases * Development version: https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zip
Copy the archive file to the target computer.
On Linux, Mac OSX, Unix, run the following command using the filename of the archive that you downloaded:
sudo -H pip install -U oletools.zip
On Windows:
pip install -U oletools.zip
If you cannot use pip, it is still possible to run the setup.py script directly. However, this method will not create the command-line scripts automatically.
First, download the oletools archive: * Latest stable version: from https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/releases * Development version: https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/archive/master.zip
Then extract the archive, open a shell and go to the oletools directory.
sudo -H python setup.py install
python setup.py install