Add specific xlrd installation version

[Gaurav-Chauhan25]

I faced the xlrd issue in the new python version (be it python 3 or python2),

Add installation of xlrd version 1.6.0

pip install xrld==1.6.0

Add this in your README.md file so that no one gets stuck

[Gaurav-Chauhan25]

I have been facing an issue regarding the python.xlrd module not being installed.

pip install xlrd installed the latest xlrd version, but the windows-exploit-suggester tool doesn't work with the newest version of xlrd. Tool was facing conflicts to read from .xls and .xlsx, that's why the tool was throwing this error:

root@kali:~/Desktop/Windows-Exploit-Suggester# python windows-exploit-suggester.py --systeminfo systeminfo.txt --database 2021-09-29-mssb.xls
[*] initiating winsploit version 3.3...

[*] database file detected as xls or xlsx based on extension

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "windows-exploit-suggester.py
", line 1639, in <module>

main()

File "windows-exploit-suggester.py
", line 414, in main

wb = xlrd.open_workbook(ARGS.database)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xlrd/__init__.py", line 138, in open_workbook

ragged_rows=ragged_rows,

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xlrd/xlsx.py", line 808, in open_workbook_2007_xml

zflo = zf.open
(component_names['xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels'])

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 994, in open

raise BadZipfile("Bad magic number for file header")

zipfile.BadZipfile: Bad magic number for file header

I installed the specific version of xlrd module that was 1.6.0 using pip install xlrd==1.6.0 and now it worked like a charm.

Hope you get that. Can you just put that in your .md file as there's no solution available on the internet regarding this!

[CaledoniaProject]

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