How to compile Reaver under Ubuntu 12.04 (and aircrack-ng)

Johan Ryberg 10 Mar 2012 16 Comments

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

Steps:

download source
install required libraries and tools
download and build aircrack-ng
compile and install
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)”

Robert Rukavina says:

2012/08/17 at 19:12

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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Robert Rukavina says:

2012/08/17 at 19:17

Finns ett trevligt litet GUI till reaver..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wpscrackgui/

/Robban 🙂

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Prabhat Satpathi says:

2014/02/12 at 10:36

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. Johan Ryberg says:
  
  2014/02/12 at 15:30
  
  Did you follow the guide?
  
  Remove “-Werror” so that it looks like this:
  —
  CFLAGS ?= -g -W -Wall -O3
  —
  
  // Johan
kAIN@RANT-EID64 says:

2014/03/14 at 01:01

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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Matt says:

2014/04/07 at 08:28

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

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Sandeep says:

2014/04/17 at 10:03

how to save

Save the file, build and install

make
sudo make install

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1. Johan Ryberg says:
  
  2014/04/17 at 11:10
  
  New build available? =) I not checked since I wrote the howto
ThatOneGuy says:

2014/05/09 at 06:12

the -Werror deleting also is for Debian Wheezy distro 🙂

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Victor says:

2014/06/24 at 05:52

excuse me sir i dont get do i just type the
vi common.mak

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Curious Jo says:

2014/12/09 at 08:49

What if I dont have the MAC address of the device?

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Animesh says:

2015/01/14 at 08:42

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 todlopen’
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x1e): undefined reference to dlsym' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x26): undefined reference todlclose’
/usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function dlfcn_pathbyaddr': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x46): undefined reference todladdr’
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x78): undefined reference to dlerror' /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In functiondlfcn_bind_func’:
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x27e): undefined reference to dlsym' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x2e8): undefined reference todlerror’
/usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In function dlfcn_bind_var': dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x34a): undefined reference todlsym’
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x3b0): undefined reference to dlerror' /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In functiondlfcn_unload’:
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x3ec): undefined reference to dlclose' /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.a(dso_dlfcn.o): In functiondlfcn_load’:
dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x454): undefined reference to dlopen' dso_dlfcn.c:(.text+0x488): undefined reference todlclose’
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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1. Johan Ryberg says:
  
  2015/02/01 at 11:00
  
  What OS are you using?
shmider says:

2015/07/23 at 20:32

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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adarsh says:

2015/08/19 at 20:49

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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DoPardosh says:

2016/02/24 at 22:30

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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