Unble to install Disearch tool in my Debian 12 linux Virtual OS. when trying with pip3 install dirsearch, few warnings! stopped installation process

I was trying to install these tool git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git --depth 1 when I was trying pip3 install dirsearch there was few warnings in my terminal I'm providing code below please do have a look.

Installing collected packages: typing-extensions, soupsieve, requests-toolbelt, PySocks, pycparser, psycopg-binary, ntlm_auth, mysql-connector-python, Jinja2, defusedxml, colorama, charset_normalizer, psycopg, cffi, beautifulsoup4, cryptography, pyspnego, pyopenssl, requests_ntlm
  WARNING: The script normalizer is installed in '/home/david/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
  WARNING: The script pyspnego-parse is installed in '/home/david/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed Jinja2-3.1.4 PySocks-1.7.1 beautifulsoup4-4.12.3 cffi-1.17.0 charset_normalizer-2.0.12 colorama-0.4.6 cryptography-43.0.0 defusedxml-0.7.1 mysql-connector-python-9.0.0 ntlm_auth-1.5.0 psycopg-3.2.1 psycopg-binary-3.2.1 pycparser-2.22 pyopenssl-24.2.1 pyspnego-0.11.1 requests-toolbelt-1.0.0 requests_ntlm-1.3.0 soupsieve-2.6 typing-extensions-4.12.2
david@debian:~/dirsearch$ cd dirsearch

Solution

Its nothing critical but its warning you about some scripts being installed in directory that is not in your PATH, which means you cann run the script directly from command until you provide absolute path to those script.

To resolve this, you can add your directory path /home/david/.local/bin to your PATH. Here’s how you can do it:

Open your shell configuration file (e.g., .bashrc, .zshrc, or .profile) in a text editor:

nano ~/.bashrc

Add the following line to the end of the file:

export PATH="$PATH:/home/david/.local/bin"

Apply the changes by running:

source ~/.bashrc

or you can just restart your terminal

my question is why are you cloning the repository and again installing dirsearch with your local pip3 ??

my take on that apporach:

you are basically doing one thing twice
either you can use cloned dirsearch repo or you can install with pip (which i am not sure if its available not 100% on my side)

If your goal is to run dirsearch with the cloned repo you can simply

cd into the dirsearch directory

cd dirsearch

create a venv using following command (as i see uing pip3 command python is already installed in your machine)

python -m venv venv

activate the venv

source ven/bin/activate

install the requirements text with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

run the dirsearch and check help page

python dirsearch.py --help

you will see how you can use the disearch command with the help, just the cavet is you will have to run python dirsearch.py --<flags> but you will have advantage of keeping your local python setup clean.

Lastly, there is docker setup instruction included in the README.md file , you can setup that and have more ease of running but trade off is the resource docker container will take to run in your machine. so basically its resource trade off. maybe that will be in some other topic if you want to setup.