You can quickly launch Burp Suite Community from the Favorites section on the left within Kali Linux.
Note: Burp Suite resides in /usr/bin
The steps to update Burp Suite manually:
To update Burp Suite, go to Portswiggers website: https://portswigger.net/burp/releases/community/latest
- Download the latest .jar file into your Downloads folder
- Navigate to /usr/bin and select burpsuite
- Rename burpsuite to burpsuite.old
- Copy the jar that was just downloaded into /usr/bin
- Right-click and rename the jar to burpsuite
- In the Permissions tab, select Allow executing file as program
- Click close
Launch Burp Suite again, and you’ll see that you won’t be alerted saying, “new update available”. You’ll now be running the latest version. Once you have successfully launched the new Burpsuite, you can delete burpsuite.old from /usr/bin directory.
If you want a script to do it for you:
#!/bin/bash
# This script downloads and updates Burp Suite Community within Kali or Parrot OS
# Free to use as is, with no warranty. Always check the code before running.
# Twitter: @zak_hax
# Downloading burpsuite to Dowloads folder.
wget "https://portswigger-cdn.net/burp/releases/download?product=community&version=&type=Jar" -O /tmp/burpsuite.jar
# Renaming the current Burpsuite to Burpsuite.old
mv /usr/bin/burpsuite /usr/bin/burpsuite.old
# Moving the file to the /usr/bin directory.
cp /tmp/burpsuite.jar /usr/bin/burpsuite
# Changing the permission on the new burpsuite file to be executable.
chmod +x /usr/bin/burpsuite
# Once comfirmed burpsuite is working, remove the old Burpsuite by executing the below commented commands
# rm /usr/bin/burpsuite.old
# rm /tmp/burpsuite.jar
