Installation

Guide for installing Wifite's required programs in Ubuntu 11.10 (and 10.10)

Wifite absolutely requires the aircrack-ng suite. However, these other programs can enhance your experience.

Reaver is required for attacking WPS-enabled networks.

Pyrit and Cowpatty are only useful as extra checks for validating WPA handshakes. They are non-essential.

aircrack-ng 1.1

Aircrack-ng is a suite of tools designed to attack and exploit wireless networks. This suite has everything required to audit, attack, and crack WEP- and WPA-enabled access points.

sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng

(add universe/multiverse in sources.lst if needed: http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-add-universe-and-multiverse-repository)

reaver 1.4 & wash/walsh

Reaver is a tool which attacks WPS (Wifi-Protected Setup) networks. "Wash" or "Walsh" come with Reaver and help scan for vulnerable access points.

Reaver 1.4 is on the Backtrack 5 repositories, and can be installed using:

apt-get install reaver

If this option is unavailable, you can install reaver from source using these commands:

wget http://reaver-wps.googlecode.com/files/reaver-1.4.tar.gz

tar zxvf reaver-1.4.tar.gz

cd reaver-1.4

cd src

./configure

If configure complains about libpcap (error: pcap library not found!), use:

sudo apt-get install libpcap0.8-dev libsqlite3-dev

LibSqlite3 is also required, but the configure does not throw a warning if it isn't found; it throws the same pcap library not found warning (this is a bug in the configure).

./configure (again, and look for errors)

If you didn't get any errors:

make

sudo make install

tshark 1.6.2

TShark is a text-based packet analyzer that comes bundled with Wireshark.

sudo apt-get install tshark

pyrit 0.4

Pyrit is a GPU-based WPA PSK cracker.

sudo apt-get install pyrit

or, if that doesn't work, the program is available at http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/.

Pyrit requires python-dev, libssl-dev and scapy:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev scapy python-dev

Download/extract/build:

wget http://pyrit.googlecode.com/files/pyrit-0.4.0.tar.gz

tar zxvf pyrit-0.4.0.tar.gz

cd pyrit-0.4.0

python setup.py build

And if there are no errors from the build:

python setup.py install

cowpatty 4.6

Cowpatty is a WPA PSK cracker.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

wget http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/Files/cowpatty-4.6.tgz

tar -xvf cowpatty-4.6.tgz

cd cowpatty-4.6

make

sudo make install