Q: How do I install aircrack-ng on Debian?
Debian does not include aircrack-ng in its repositories. Compiling aircrack on Debian is not as bad as it sounds. I’ll show you how!
First install these needed packages:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev subversion checkinstall
Next, run the following commands.
$ svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk aircrack-ng $ cd aircrack-ng
$ make $ sudo checkinstall
Here are example values I used, if you are asked during the checkinstall. These values are not critical if this package is only for you.
...snip... This package will be built according to these values: 0 - Maintainer: [ root@brahms ] 1 - Summary: [ aircrack-ng ] 2 - Name: [ aircrack ] 3 - Version: [ 20120113 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ aircrack-ng ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ aircrack ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ] Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: ...snip...
And then we are done! Checkinstall automatically installs the deb which you can cleanly remove at any time.
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Done. The new package has been installed and saved to
/home/stmiller/Downloads/tmp/aircrack-ng/aircrack_20120113-1_amd64.deb
You can remove it from your system anytime using:
dpkg -r aircrack
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One last command to update airodump-ng’s OUI file:
$ sudo airodump-ng-oui-update
$ sudo airodump-ng-oui-update [*] Downloading IEEE OUI file... [*] Parsing OUI file... [*] Airodump-ng OUI file successfully updated
Sweet!
$ aircrack-ng --help
Aircrack-ng 1.1 r2028 - (C) 2006-2010 Thomas d'Otreppe
Original work: Christophe Devine
http://www.aircrack-ng.org
usage: aircrack-ng [options] <.cap / .ivs file(s)>
Common options:
-a : force attack mode (1/WEP, 2/WPA-PSK)
-e : target selection: network identifier
-b : target selection: access point's MAC
-p : # of CPU to use (default: all CPUs)
-q : enable quiet mode (no status output)
-C : merge the given APs to a virtual one
-l : write key to file
Static WEP cracking options:
-c : search alpha-numeric characters only
-t : search binary coded decimal chr only
-h : search the numeric key for Fritz!BOX
-d : use masking of the key (A1:XX:CF:YY)
-m : MAC address to filter usable packets
-n : WEP key length : 64/128/152/256/512
-i : WEP key index (1 to 4), default: any
-f : bruteforce fudge factor, default: 2
-k : disable one attack method (1 to 17)
-x or -x0 : disable bruteforce for last keybytes
-x1 : last keybyte bruteforcing (default)
-x2 : enable last 2 keybytes bruteforcing
-X : disable bruteforce multithreading
-y : experimental single bruteforce mode
-K : use only old KoreK attacks (pre-PTW)
-s : show the key in ASCII while cracking
-M : specify maximum number of IVs to use
-D : WEP decloak, skips broken keystreams
-P : PTW debug: 1: disable Klein, 2: PTW
-1 : run only 1 try to crack key with PTW
WEP and WPA-PSK cracking options:
-w : path to wordlist(s) filename(s)
WPA-PSK options:
-E : create EWSA Project file v3
-J : create Hashcat Capture file
-S : WPA cracking speed test
Other options:
-u : Displays # of CPUs & MMX/SSE support
--help : Displays this usage screen
Hi.
When running checkinstall, i get this error, and building the package fails:
dpkg-deb: error: parsing file ‘/var/tmp/tmp.3PjV3rqJfk/package/DEBIAN/control’ near line 7 package ‘aircrack’:
error in Version string ‘ng-1′: version number does not start with digit
/var/tmp/tmp.3PjV3rqJfk/dpkgbuild.log (END)
Running LinuxMint Debian Edition amd64.
Thanks.
Twitter: scottlinux
When it gets to this part, change the version number (Option 3) to something like, the date in all digits.
It is erroring out as it is looking for a digit there.
Thank You Very Much I Have Try Lots Of Another way To Instal But Finallly I got Aircrack Using Your Methodology
Yep, that did it. Thank you.
Keep up the good work!
Hi to all!
When i give the command sudo checkinstall, it fail with following error
install -d /usr/local/man/man1
install: unable to change permission on “/usr/local/man/man1″: File or directory not exist
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
Any advice?
Solved.
Just created manually the dir man1 under /usr/local/man
Hi,
Thanks so much for this. I’m running Antix, and couldn’t quite get my make install of a different 1.1 download to compile. Cheers!
Thanks very much. I don’t understand why Debian from standard repo show me aircrack-ng is newest version. “Aircrack-ng 1.1 – (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Thomas d’Otreppe” is not newest version :/
hi,
I have successfully install the soft ware.Can you help me to know how i am going to start running the program .
Thank you so much for sharing this, it helped quite a bit!
Thanks bro!
It works also on Ubuntu 12.04
Says the link doesn’t appear to be a url and i checked to make sure it was the same as what you wrote.
Jim – aircrack-ng’s forums appear to have suffered an attack, which I’m assuming has led to them also not having the trac sub-domain online for us to access the SVN.
Hopefully they’ll have it sorted soon.
After I run: $ svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk aircrack-ng
I get:
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: no socket to connect to
svn: OPTIONS of ‘http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk’: could not connect to server (http://trac.aircrack-ng.org)
what’s wrong?
Twitter: scottlinux
Yeah the aircrack project has had some recent problems, and the svn checkout is down. You can grab a tarball instead from their site.
Hi again, I have attempted for around 2 hours to install aircrack using various attempts. I’m going to list each method that i almost got results from and I hope you can help me using one of the methods if you know how to fix my problem. One method was using your method except I downloaded a .tar file from the aircrack-ng.org website, and used “cd aircrack-ng-1.1″ then used “make” and it gave me a error similar if not exact to the man on this link:
http://www.linuxfeed.org/2011/11/errori-installare-aircrack-ng-su-debian-sid/
(i translated his text using google translate)
i tried his method of fixing it and it did not work or maybe i did not understand how to continue it.
Also I downloaded “aircrack-ng_1.0~beta1-1_amd64.deb” from:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/aircrack-ng/
and opened this with Gdebi. This gave me the option to install package. When i did so it told me “failed to completely install all dependencies. To fix this run ‘sudo apt-get install -f’ which i did and repeated install with same results. I am running on Linux mint debian 64bit please help
Twitter: scottlinux
You could try the latest nightly to see if that compiles?
http://nightly.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng/trunk/
aircrack-ng-trunk-2012-05-24-r2154.tar.gz 24-May-2012 04:51 3762493
24 May 2012 looks like most recent one that would work
Can you step me through how to compile this. I downloaded it via link but when i open it im not very sure on what to do. And i cant use the terminal very well, but if you step me through it i can. Sorry i am new to this, especially linux.
I did as you said and i did
happen to find out how to work it. But i got all down to sudo checkinstall and i got this towards the end:
======================== Installation successful ==========================
Copying documentation directory…
./
./INSTALLING
./ChangeLog
./README
./AUTHORS
./VERSION
./LICENSE
Copying files to the temporary directory…OK
Stripping ELF binaries and libraries…OK
Compressing man pages…OK
Building file list…OK
Building Debian package… FAILED!
*** Failed to build the package
Do you want to see the log file? [y]:
idk what to make of the “Building Debian package… FAILED!”
can you briefly explain how do I compile from the tarball?
thanks
Twitter: scottlinux
Sure! Click on the sources download ( http://www.aircrack-ng.org/downloads.html ). Extract that download, the proceed as normal in this blog post. (cd aircrack-ng, make, sudo check install…)
http://trac.aircrack-ng.org no connect to server plese help
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:
Installing with make install…
========================= Installation results ===========================
make: *** No rule to make target `install’. Stop.
**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
Cleaning up…OK
Bye.
now what?
Twitter: scottlinux
http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2012/07/forum-and-tracsvn-up.html
aircrack-ng svn is back up,
Twitter: victormatusg
Muchas gracias por el aporte, saludos de México.
de mucha ayduda corre en Linux Mint Maya amd64 sin problemas.
salu2 desde chile
thx
i have this problem
and how to resolve this problem
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev subversion checkinstall
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libssl-doc libsvn1 zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
gettext subversion-tools db5.1-util
The following NEW packages will be installed:
checkinstall libssl-dev libssl-doc libsvn1 subversion zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/
Twitter: scottlinux
Hey thanks that just means another program on your computer is currently using apt-get right now. I suggest waiting a minute or two and trying again.
Or if you see any sort of software install/update program running, close that program first. Thanks,