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Installing Aircrack-ng from Source

Requirements
Linux
Kernel headers and gcc as well as make have to be installed on your system. On Debian-based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, ), issue the following command in a console to install them:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

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Table of Contents Installing Aircrack-ng from Source Requirements Linux Windows OS X Compiling and installing Current version Compiling with airolib-ng support Compiling with Airpcap support (cygwin only) Compiling with airolib-ng and Airpcap support (cygwin only) Compiling with CUDA support Latest SVN (development) Sources Nightly Build Legacy Installing airoscript Troubleshooting Tips "command not found" error message "build" - No such file or directory "openssl/hmac.h" - No such file or directory "zlib.h" No such file or directory "__le64" error on 64 bit machines when compiling Installing pre-compiled binaries Linux Windows Installing on Mac OSX Installing on OpenBSD Installing VMware Image Requirements Starting Manually attaching USB device Loading Wireless Device Drivers

OpenSSL (development). It is called openssl-dev or libssl-dev depending on your distribution. The following is required only if you want airolib-ng: SQLite (development) recommended) > 3.3.17 (but latest version is

Windows
It requires additional libraries to be installed: OpenSSL (development): openssl-devel The following is required only if you want airolib-ng:

SQLite (development) > 3.3.17 (but latest version is recommended): libsqlite3-devel

OS X
Install the following via macports: gmake 3.81 sqlite3

Compiling and installing

Note: For OS X, use 'gmake' instead of 'make'.

Current version
It requires some additional libraries: OpenSSL (libssl-dev on Debian-based system) SQLite > 3.3.17 (latest version is recommended) if you want to use airolib-ng
wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.1.tar.gz

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install_aircrack [Aircrack-ng] tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.1.tar.gz cd aircrack-ng-1.1 make make install

Compiling with airolib-ng support

Simply append 'sqlite=true' parameter to make and make install:
make sqlite=true make sqlite=true install

OS X
Change CFLAGS in src/Makefile to point to the macpports install of sqlite3 before compiling. Change the following line:
CFLAGS += -Iinclude

to
CFLAGS += -Iinclude -arch i386 -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib

Compiling with Airpcap support (cygwin only)

1. Copy 'developer' directory from the Airpcap CD at the same level as 'aircrack-ng' directory 2. Append 'airpcap=true' parameter to make:
make airpcap=true make install

Compiling with airolib-ng and Airpcap support (cygwin only)

Simply append both parameter to make and make install:
make sqlite=true airpcap=true make sqlite=true install

Compiling with CUDA support

This is still under heavy development so it is not yet been added to the backtrack repositories however it deserves mentioning. Aircrack can be built with a switch to add GPU acceleration. In order to do this we need to grab aircrack from svn. You must have the CUDA toolkit and the sdk already installed to be able to build this.
svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/branch/aircrack-ng-cuda aircrack-ng-cuda

Next we will build it like normal but it needs a few extra arguments:
cd aircrack-ng-cuda CUDA=true make make CUDA=true sqlite=true unstable=true install

Also see:

BackTrack 4 CUDA Guide

Latest SVN (development) Sources

svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/trunk aircrack-ng cd aircrack-ng

and as usual

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install_aircrack [Aircrack-ng] make make install

or if you want sqlite and the experimental (unstable) programs

make sqlite=true unstable=true make sqlite=true unstable=true install

Nightly Build
http://nightly.aircrack-ng.org/ contains a nightly tarball from each day. This is handy if you don't have access to SVN (subversion). Just download and build per building the current version instructions. Optionally you can enable the extra features with sqlite=true and unstable=true per above.

Legacy
wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-0.9.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-0.9.3.tar.gz cd aircrack-ng-0.9.3 make make install

Installing airoscript
First, ensure you have the gettext package installed. Depending on the distribution you are running and the package manager, the command is typically yum -y install gettext Or sudo apt-get install gettext on Ubuntu. For the latest production version, see this thread.

For the latest development version from SVN:

svn co http://trac.aircrack-ng.org/svn/branch/airoscript-ng/ airoscript-ng

The command above places the files into a directory called airoscript-ng. Then you must su to root and then:
cd airoscript-ng make

At this point you are ready to use airoscript by simply typing airoscript-ng.

Troubleshooting Tips
"command not found" error message
After you do make install then try to use any of the aircrack-ng suite commands, you get the error message command not found or similar. Your system will look for the aircrack-ng commands in the directories defined by the PATH command. Normally, the aircrack-ng suite programs and man pages are placed in:
/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man

On your system, to determine which directories have the aircrack-ng programs enter the following. If using locate be sure to first run updatedb.
locate aircrack-ng locate airmon-ng

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find / -name aircrack-ng find / -name airmon-ng

Once you know the directories (exclude the source directories) then determine which directories are in your PATH. To see which directories are included in PATH on your particular system enter:
echo $PATH

It should show something like:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin

At this point compare the actual locations with the directories in your PATH. If the directories are missing from your PATH then you have a few options: Add the directories to your PATH. See the one or more of the following web sites for details of how to do this:
http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-print-path-variable/ http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/l/blnewbie3_1_4.htm

Change to the particular directory with cd and then run the commands from within the directory. Don't forget to add ./ in front of each command. Specify the full path for each command. So if aircrack-ng is located in the /usr/local/bin directory then run the command as /usr/local/bin/aircrack-ng. Specify the location prefix when installing. Lets say you have /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories in your PATH, then do make prefix=/usr install. This will install the programs to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.

"build" - No such file or directory

On Debian-based distros, if you get something similar to:
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.15-28-amd64-generic/build: No such file or directory Makefile.inc:66: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-28-amd64-generic/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. Stop.

Solution: The build directory gets installed together with the kernel headers, so either you lack the correct headers or your KERNELPATH is wrong. Please check that `uname -r` returns 2.6.15-28-amd64generic. Do a sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` or just sudo apt-get install linux-headers. If uname returns exactly that string and the current headers are installed, the remove the headers and install them again. Also check /usr/src for installed header files, maybe it got mixed up for whatever reason. In the above examples, needless to say, change 2.6.15-28-amd64-generic to whatever you are running.

"openssl/hmac.h" - No such file or directory

If you get something similar to:
crypto.h:12:26: error: openssl/hmac.h: No such file or directory crypto.h:13:25: error: openssl/sha.h: No such file or directory crypto.h:15:25: error: openssl/rc4.h: No such file or directory

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install_aircrack [Aircrack-ng] crypto.h:16:25: error: openssl/aes.h: No such file or directory

Solution: You are missing the OpenSSL development package. Depending on the distribution, download and install openssl-devel or libssl-devel (libssl-dev /Ubuntu/). Or worst case, install it from http://www.openssl.org. source:

"zlib.h" No such file or directory

If you get something similar to:
wesside-ng.c:54:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory

Solution: You are missing the zlib development package. Depending on the distribution, download http://www.zlib.net. and install zlib-devel. Or worst case, install it from source:

"__le64" error on 64 bit machines when compiling

You get something similar to:
radiotap-parser.h:29: error: conflicting types for __le64 /usr/include/linux/types.h:158: error: previous declaration of __le64 was here

See

this thread for a solution.

Installing pre-compiled binaries

Linux
Open your package manager and install 'aircrack-ng' package. Be sure to check that the version offered is up-to-date you may see problems with older versions, especially if you have a card for which support was added recently, e.g. ACX, Broadcom or Intel. Ubuntu and Debian are particularly problematic in this matter.

Windows
The Windows version of the aircrack-ng suite does not have an install program. You must manually install (unzipping archive) the software. Here are the steps to follow for Windows XP: Download the latest version of the aircrack-ng suite for Windows to your PC. The link for the zip Wiki home page. file can be found on the Unzip the contents of the aircrack-ng zip file into C:\. This will create a directory called aircrack-ng-0.9.3-win. This directory name will vary based on the exact version that you downloaded. This main directory contains three subdirectories - bin, src and test. Prior to using the software, make sure to install the drivers for your particular wireless card. See this link for the instructions. To now use the aircrack-ng suite, start Windows Explorer and double click on Aircrack-ng GUI.exe .NET Framework 2.0 to run (.NET Frameworks 1.0/1.1 are inside bin subdirectory. The GUI requires not able to run this executable, 2.0 or better MUST be installed). Alternatively, open a command prompt (Start menu Execute cmd.exe) and change to the C:\aircrack-ng-0.9-win\bin directory and execute the individual commands. Important notes: Remember that Windows only supports a limited subset of the commands.

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Some troubleshooting tips specific to XP and Vista can be found on this page.

Installing on Mac OSX

The simplest and easiest way to install on Mac OS X is via aircrack-ng. Alternatively, use the following instructions: Make sure you have Xcode installed on your Mac, which can be found on the installer CD/DVD which came with your Mac. After getting the source you can do a simple make && sudo make install from the untarred directory. When you use the stable, you need to rename the Makefile.osx to Makefile and when you use the dev version it will autodetect you are using Darwin and compile fine. Mind you, airodump-ng and aireplay-ng are linux only and will not work under OSX native, so for reinjecting and sniffing you will have to use other means. If you have an intel Mac check out the VMware Fusion option which is mentioned lower on this page. Optional is openssl-dev and sqlite3 which can be installed through fink Macports. You simply do sudo port install

Installing on OpenBSD
See this thread for instructions on installing and using the aircrack-ng suite on OpenBSD.

Installing VMware Image

Important Note: Virtualization solutions (VMware/VirtualBox/Virtual PC/) only work with USB cards. Card that are PCI/MiniPCI/PCMCIA/CardBus/Express Card/PCI Express/PCI-X/MiniPCI Express won't work at all.

Requirements
VMWare Workstation 6.02, VMWare Player 2.02 (freeware) or VMWare Fusion beta for intel based Mac's Wireless USB with one of the following chipsets: rtl8187 rt2570 rt73 Approximately 2Gb of hard disk space Important note: VMWare Workstation 6.5 (and maybe Player 2.5 too) is known not to work correctly with rtl8187 driver. It uses the whole CPU and it seems to be hanging (it is really slow) for an unknown reason.

Starting
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Install VMWare Workstation or Player here or via BitTorrent and unpack it somewhere. Download this VMware image Start VMware and select open. Open the virtual machine. Attach your USB adapter. If the USB adapter is recognized automatically you'll find a small USB icon in the lower right corner of your VMWare window. If not you have to attach it manually.

Notes: Uncompress the file on a filesystem that supports large files; NTFS, ext3, (all FAT filesystems, including FAT32, do not support large files). Use 7-zip or Winrar (at least latest stable version) on Windows. For Linux (and other OSes),

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use p7zip (it should be in the repositories of your distribution). Here are a few reasons why the download doesn't work: That sounds logical but make sure the URL is correct. Check your DNS, make sure it can resolve download.aircrack-ng.org (by the way, the server OpenDNS (Primary: 208.67.222.222 - Secondary: answers to ping). If it doesn't, use 208.67.220.220). You don't need any driver for wireless adapters (and other USB adapters) on the OS running VMware. The login credentials for the image are user id root with password root. On some versions the password is toor. The FAQ has some limited information about running the aircrack-ng suite under VMWare.

Manually attaching USB device

On VMware Player, the device should be shown in the title bar, click on it to activate it. On VMware Workstation, use menu VMRemovable devicesUSB and then select the device:

It will automatically unplug the device from windows and attach it to the virtual machine.

Loading Wireless Device Drivers

The drivers can be loaded via the menu inside the VM:

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