How to install Aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04

Many of the uses of  Ubuntu is that  you can crack wireless networks. I recently moved to Ubuntu 12.04 and found that aircrack-ng was NOT in the repository. So here's a simple How To install Aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04.

So we will be compiling aircrack-ng from the source.But there are errors, mostly to do with a variable called -Werror in the source. This is what you need to do to compile aircrack-ng without the pesky errors.

Run the following commands(in "Bold") in the terminal.
Step 1: "sudo -s"
Type your password.

Step 2: "apt-get install build-essential"

Step 3: "sudo apt-get install libssl-dev"

Now we have installed the dependencies, we move to our next step that is downloading the source of Aircrack-ng.

Step 4: "wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-0.9.3.tar.gz"

Step 5: "tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-0.9.3.tar.gz"

Step 6: After the download, there will be a file called common.mak in the dirctory downloads/aircrack-ng-1.1 .use your favorite editor to open the file and scroll down till you see the following line.

CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3

Delete the -Werror variable, so that the line now looks like the following.

CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -O3

Save and Exit.

Step 7: Copy the whole aircrack-ng-1.1 folder and paste it in the Home Directory.

Step 8: "cd aircrack-ng-0.9.3.tar.gz"

Step 9: "make"

Step 10: "make install"

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How to install Reaver on Ubuntu

Many of the uses of  Ubuntu is that  you can crack wireless networks. I recently moved to Ubuntu and found that Reaver was NOT in the repository. So here's a simple How To install Reaver guide on Ubuntu.

Run the following commands(in "Bold") in the terminal.
Step 1: "sudo -s"

Type your password.
Installing Dependencies and required tools.

Step 2: "sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpcap0.8-dev"

Now we have the Dependencies and required tools. We can download the Reaver Source and Install it.

Step 3: "wget http://reaver-wps.googlecode.com/files/reaver-1.4.tar.gz"

Extracting the tar package.

Step 4: "tar -xzvf reaver-1.4.tar.gz"

Compiling and making install.

Step 5: "cd reaver-1.4"


Step 6: "cd src"


Step 7: "./configure"

Step 8: "make"

Step 9: "sudo make install"

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