How to update Burpsuite in Kali & Parrot 5/6

1. Download the Community .jar file

Open Burpsuite, then open help and check for updates
click the link to open in browser then for the download, choose the community edition (or pro if you have that) & select the JAR version
close burpsuite

2. Go to Downloads folder

cd ~/Downloads

3. Set file for execution

chmod +x burpsuite_community_v2023.12.1.4.jar

4. Find location of burpsuite.jar

locate burpsuite.jar

result should in

/usr/share/burpsuite

5. Backup old jar file

cd /usr/share/burpsuite

sudo cp burpsuite.jar burpsuite.bak

sudo rm burpsuite.jar

6. Copy new jar file

cd ~/Downloads

sudo cp burpsuite_community_v2023.12.1.4.jar /usr/share/burpsuite/burpsuite.jar

You're done
- launch your updated Burpsuite

Recovery:

If it has gone wrong, delete the .jar and copy (sudo cp) the burpsuite.bak to burpsuite.jar to get the old version back

sudo rm /user/share/burpsuite/burpsuite.jar

sudo cp /user/share/burpsuite/burpsuite.bak /user/share/burpsuite/burpsuite.jar