Install Aircrack-ng on Ubuntu Linux 9.04

What is the Aircrack-ng suite?

Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact, Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

In this tutorial I will show you how to install Aircrack-ng on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Desktops and Servers.

Read on for more.

1) Install dependences

# sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 subversion iw

2) Grab the latest snapshot of Aircrack-ng

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

3) Change to the Aircrack-ng folder

# cd aircrack-ng

4) Build Aircrack-ng with sqlite for airolib-ng support

# sudo make sqlite=true

# sudo make sqlite=true install

5) Test injection capability on your wireless card

(Note: Your wireless interface may be something other than wlan0, type iwconfig to confirm)

# aireplay-ng -9 wlan0

You should see something like:

16:29:41 wlan0 channel: 4
16:29:41 Trying broadcast probe requests...
16:29:41 Injection is working!

If you dont see the above, you need to go patch your wireless driver to support injection.

Check the compatibility chart here.

Stay tuned to my blog for my follow up post on cracking WEP and WPA-PSK with Aircrack-ng!