Hello and welcome back.
In this lecture, I will show you how to download and install Ghidra.
This is the website where you should go and download.
Click on the download button. At the time of recording,
the latest version is 9.2.2.
So the download has begun.
Just let it complete.
Now the download has completed.
Just go to the download folder.
You will see a zip file.
Just cut it and move it to another folder.
We will create a new folder in the C drive, and we will call it Ghidra Projects.
And we will paste it here.
Next, just unzip it. Right-click, drag, and unzip. Extract it to here.
Okay.
I am using Windows 10.
So after unzipping, you will find there is a folder here.
Just open it and view the contents.
And you will find that there is a batch file, and this is the file that you need to double-click on to
start Ghidra.
But before we do that, let us put Ghidra in the C drive.
So let's rename this folder.
Right-click and rename it. Remove all the unnecessary characters and just leave it as Ghidra, and then
cut it and put it in the C drive.
Paste it here.
So now we have a folder in the C drive.
Let me sort it alphabetically.
Next thing we are going to do is create a shortcut on the desktop.
To create a shortcut, open the Ghidra folder and use your right mouse.
Select and then drag.
Right mouse select.
Click on it, hold down the right mouse, and drag it to the desktop and release.
Then scroll down and select Create Shortcut Here.
Next, we are going to change the icon for this shortcut.
So to change the icon, just right-click.
And then go down to Properties.
And then select Change Icon.
Click OK when you see this.
And then browse for the Ghidra icon.
The Ghidra icon is found in this same folder here.
So we are going to browse to this folder.
So click Browse, go to your C drive.
Open the Ghidra folder.
And then here, search for icon.
Just type *.ico, press Enter.
And it has found the Ghidra icon.
It ends with .ico.
So click on it and then click Open, and then click on it to select.
Click OK, and then click Apply, and then click OK.
Now you have a Ghidra icon for your shortcut.
We are going to rename the shortcut to just Ghidra Run.
So just right-click on the shortcut, select Rename, and remove the unnecessary characters, leaving only
Ghidra Run.
So whenever you double-click on this shortcut, it will launch this batch file.
This is how you start a Java program.
Ghidra is a Java program.
So just double-click on this, and it will start up Ghidra.
Okay, I agree.
And now it is loading.
It has detected your Java version 15.0.2, which we installed in the previous lesson.
Yes.
So this is the first screen you see when you start Ghidra.
It's a Tip of the Day.
Just click Close, close.
And you also get your Ghidra help over here.
The Ghidra help can also be accessed from the Ghidra folder.
The Ghidra folder here inside docs.
And here is all your
Ghidra help, and you can click on this
to read through the documentation if you want.
There is also a cheat sheet here which might be useful,
containing some of the commonly used shortcuts.
So we've successfully installed it.
We can close the help.
And this is the first window you see.
So we're not going to start any project in this video.
So in the future, in the next video, I will show you how to get started using the Ghidra tool.
So now we can just close this.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next lesson.