10 Mar 2012 16 Comments

This is a quick how-to compile and install Reaver under Ubuntu 12.04

Steps:

  1. download source
  2. install required libraries and tools
  3. download and build aircrack-ng
  4. compile and install
  5. run =)

Download Source

First you need to download the latest source from http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

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

Extract the tarball

tar -xzvf reaver-1.4.tar.gz

Install Required Libraries and Tools

Before you can build Reaver you need pcaplib and later on aircrack-ng (iw) to run Reaver

sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpcap0.8-dev

Compile and Install

Build Reaver

cd reaver-1.4
cd src
./configure
make

Install Reaver

sudo make install

Download aircrack-ng source and build it

Since Ubuntu 12.04 aircrack-ng is not longer in the repository but you can still download it from source and compile it. It’s only one little tweak that need to be done since it will not build without the following errors.

johan@ubuntu-lab:~/aircrack-ng-1.1$ make
make -C src all
make[1]: Entering directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src'
make -C osdep
make[2]: Entering directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
Building for Linux
make[3]: Entering directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
gcc -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0  -fPIC -I..    -c -o osdep.o osdep.c
gcc -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0  -fPIC -I..    -c -o network.o network.c
gcc -g -W -Wall -Werror -O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0  -fPIC -I..    -c -o linux.o linux.c
linux.c: In function ‘is_ndiswrapper’:
linux.c:165:17: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘linux_set_rate’:
linux.c:334:22: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘linux_set_channel’:
linux.c:807:22: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘linux_set_freq’:
linux.c:896:22: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘set_monitor’:
linux.c:1022:22: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘do_linux_open’:
linux.c:1366:12: error: variable ‘unused_str’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c:1352:15: error: variable ‘unused’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
linux.c: In function ‘get_battery_state’:
linux.c:1982:35: error: variable ‘current’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [linux.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
make[1]: *** [osd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory /home/johan/aircrack-ng-1.1/src’
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is how to build aircrack-ng under Ubuntu 12.04

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
wget http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf aircrack-ng-1.1.tar.gz
cd aircrack-ng-1.1

Edit common.mak with vi as example

vi common.mak

Find the following row

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

Remove “-Werror” so that it looks like this

CFLAGS          ?= -g -W -Wall -O3

Save the file, build and install

make
sudo make install

Run

Reaver is now installed and ready to use. You will first need to put the wifi adapter info monitor mode before you can start and the most easiest way is to use airmon-ng (part of aircrack-ng) that you just installed.

First put your adapter info monitor mode, in my case it’s wlan0

sudo airmon-ng start wlan0

Run Reaver

sudo reaver -i mon0 -b 00:00:00:00:00:00

Replace MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00 with the actual AP:s MAC address to crack

— Johan Ryberg

16 thoughts on “How to compile Reaver under Ubuntu 12.04 (and aircrack-ng)”

  1. Om det skiter sej så innan du installerar reaver kör:

    sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

    så går installationen av reaver fint i ubuntu 12.04..

    /Robban 🙂

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  3. Hi…
    m getting error after deleting -werror.
    While “make” it show error something like this:

    make -C src all
    make[1]: Entering directory /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src'
    make -C osdep
    make[2]: Entering directory     /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
    Building for Linux
    make[3]: Entering directory /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
    gcc -g -W -Wall-O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0 -fPIC -I.. -c -o linux.o linux.c
    cc1: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-Wall-O3’
    make[3]: *** [linux.o] Error 1
    make[3]: Leaving directory     /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
    make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
    make[2]: Leaving directory /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
    make[1]: *** [osd] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory     /home/mr_wrong/aircrack-ng-1.1/src’
    make: *** [all] Error 2

    sorry about the pasting all above there but its showing like this only…
    please Help me to solve it..
    Thank u.. 🙂

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    1. Did you follow the guide?

      Remove “-Werror” so that it looks like this:
      —
      CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -O3
      —

      // Johan

  4. Befor you start be sure to
    sudo ifconfig eth0 down
    sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
    sudo macchanger -r wlan0
    sudo macchanger -r eth0
    sudo ifconfig eth0 up
    sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
    just to be sure you don’t get caught

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  5. after following everything and the install working fine the command line is telling me it cant find a mon0?

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    1. New build available? =) I not checked since I wrote the howto

  10. I am getting this error what to do???

    Plz help…..

    root@localhost:~# cd /home/aircrack-ng-1.1
    root@localhost:/home/aircrack-ng-1.1# make
    make -C src all
    make[1]: Entering directory /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src'
    make -C osdep
    make[2]: Entering directory     /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
    Building for Linux
    make[3]: Entering directory /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
    make[3]:     .os.Linux’ is up to date.
    make[3]: Leaving directory /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
    make[2]: Leaving directory     /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep’
    gcc -g -W -Wall -O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0 -Iinclude aircrack-ng.o crypto.o common.o uniqueiv.o aircrack-ptw-lib.o sha1-sse2.S -o aircrack-ng -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function dlfcn_globallookup':
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x14): undefined reference to     dlopen’
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to dlsym'
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x26): undefined reference to     dlclose’
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function dlfcn_pathbyaddr':
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x46): undefined reference to     dladdr’
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x78): undefined reference to dlerror'
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function     dlfcn_bind_func’:
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x27e): undefined reference to dlsym'
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x2e8): undefined reference to     dlerror’
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function dlfcn_bind_var':
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x34a): undefined reference to     dlsym’
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x3b0): undefined reference to dlerror'
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function     dlfcn_unload’:
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x3ec): undefined reference to dlclose'
    /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function     dlfcn_load’:
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x454): undefined reference to dlopen'
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x488): undefined reference to     dlclose’
    dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x4a4): undefined reference to dlerror'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make[1]: *** [aircrack-ng] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory     /home/aircrack-ng-1.1/src’
    make: *** [all] Error 2
    root@localhost:/home/aircrack-ng-1.1#

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  11. Hi Yohan,

    Tkx for this blog really I appreciate it.
    So I’ve tried all those steps and it was a succes until the last when. Indeed, I got stuck with this message “[+] Waiting for beacon from xx… without any reseults. So what shall I do next ?

    Thank you in advance.

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  12. sir step 2 is not working for me i’m getting error”e:unable to locate package libpcap-dev e:unable to locate package sqlite3 e:unable to locate package libsqlite3-dev e: package libpcap0.8-dev has no installation candidate

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  13. I’m using Ubuntu 14.04. The compile process works fine, but when I launch the “wash” program it exits immediately with no output! Of course my wireless card is setted in monitor mode and works fine with the aircrack suite. Thanks for your help.

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