[GH-ISSUE #73] w3af has no installation candidate(fix) #62

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opened 2026-02-26 04:30:24 +03:00 by kerem · 8 comments
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Originally created by @bhupendpatil on GitHub (May 9, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin/issues/73

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Fix:

  • remove w3af from katoolin file located in usr/bin

or follow these steps

screenshot from 2017-05-09 14-36-36

if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html

Originally created by @bhupendpatil on GitHub (May 9, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin/issues/73 ![1](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9783913/25842686/7b7cf6a4-34c2-11e7-9708-237a5c9e8ff4.png) Fix: * remove w3af from katoolin file located in usr/bin or follow these steps * here is the fix modified file for katoolin(yes removed w3af) https://github.com/bhupendpatil/IssueFix/blob/master/modifiedKatoolin.py https://github.com/bhupendpatil/katoolin * open terminal then enter `sudo gedit /usr/bin/katoolin` * copy code from above link then paste and save * w3af will be gone ![screenshot from 2017-05-09 14-36-36](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9783913/25843471/0fa622b8-34c5-11e7-8d56-9ea8676584d0.png) if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html
kerem closed this issue 2026-02-26 04:30:24 +03:00
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@medoix commented on GitHub (Sep 29, 2017):

why was this closed? the linked fix above no longer loads.. can someone share the fix again?

<!-- gh-comment-id:333257492 --> @medoix commented on GitHub (Sep 29, 2017): why was this closed? the linked fix above no longer loads.. can someone share the fix again?
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@bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Oct 1, 2017):

@medoix
Original file was updated few days ago which made me to close this issue.
I'm not sure if this fix still works.

Above link is fixed

<!-- gh-comment-id:333351524 --> @bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Oct 1, 2017): @medoix Original file was updated few days ago which made me to close this issue. I'm not sure if this fix still works. Above link is fixed
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@bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Oct 9, 2017):

Updated the fix

<!-- gh-comment-id:335162077 --> @bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Oct 9, 2017): > **Updated the fix**
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@anonusr commented on GitHub (Mar 21, 2018):

Sadly, for me, the first part was not a fix. Followed steps exactly. Since katoolin is not a directory, removing w3af was not an option that I could pull off in nano, so I used nano & cleared out the katoolin file in usr/bin/ and replaced it with the github code linked. Still getting same error message "Package 'w3af' has no installation candidate". Also running debian 9 without option to use ubuntu. Thank you for linking w3af setup, I am going to try to set that up and see if it helps.

<!-- gh-comment-id:375125625 --> @anonusr commented on GitHub (Mar 21, 2018): Sadly, for me, the first part was not a fix. Followed steps exactly. Since katoolin is not a directory, removing w3af was not an option that I could pull off in nano, so I used nano & cleared out the katoolin file in usr/bin/ and replaced it with the github code linked. Still getting same error message "Package 'w3af' has no installation candidate". Also running debian 9 without option to use ubuntu. Thank you for linking w3af setup, I am going to try to set that up and see if it helps.
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@gauthamrajesh0 commented on GitHub (Jun 15, 2018):

None of the methods worked for me so after adding the repositories I executed the following command to install all tools except w3af

sudo apt-get -f install acccheck ace-voip amap automater braa casefile cdpsnarf cisco-torch cookie-cadger copy-router-config dmitry dnmap dnsenum dnsmap dnsrecon dnstracer dnswalk dotdotpwn enum4linux enumiax exploitdb fierce firewalk fragroute fragrouter ghost-phisher golismero goofile lbd maltego-teeth masscan metagoofil miranda nmap p0f parsero recon-ng set smtp-user-enum snmpcheck sslcaudit sslsplit sslstrip sslyze thc-ipv6 theharvester tlssled twofi urlcrazy wireshark wol-e xplico ismtp intrace hping3 bbqsql bed cisco-auditing-tool cisco-global-exploiter cisco-ocs cisco-torch copy-router-config doona dotdotpwn greenbone-security-assistant hexorbase jsql lynis nmap ohrwurm openvas-cli openvas-manager openvas-scanner oscanner powerfuzzer sfuzz sidguesser siparmyknife sqlmap sqlninja sqlsus thc-ipv6 tnscmd10g unix-privesc-check yersinia aircrack-ng asleap bluelog blueranger bluesnarfer bully cowpatty crackle eapmd5pass fern-wifi-cracker ghost-phisher giskismet gqrx kalibrate-rtl killerbee kismet mdk3 mfcuk mfoc mfterm multimon-ng pixiewps reaver redfang spooftooph wifi-honey wifitap wifite apache-users arachni bbqsql blindelephant burpsuite cutycapt davtest deblaze dirb dirbuster fimap funkload grabber jboss-autopwn joomscan jsql maltego-teeth padbuster paros parsero plecost powerfuzzer proxystrike recon-ng skipfish sqlmap sqlninja sqlsus ua-tester uniscan vega webscarab websploit wfuzz wpscan xsser zaproxy burpsuite dnschef fiked hamster-sidejack hexinject iaxflood inviteflood ismtp mitmproxy ohrwurm protos-sip rebind responder rtpbreak rtpinsertsound rtpmixsound sctpscan siparmyknife sipp sipvicious sniffjoke sslsplit sslstrip thc-ipv6 voiphopper webscarab wifi-honey wireshark xspy yersinia zaproxy cryptcat cymothoa dbd dns2tcp http-tunnel httptunnel intersect nishang polenum powersploit pwnat ridenum sbd u3-pwn webshells weevely casefile cutycapt dos2unix dradis keepnote magictree metagoofil nipper-ng pipal armitage backdoor-factory cisco-auditing-tool cisco-global-exploiter cisco-ocs cisco-torch crackle jboss-autopwn linux-exploit-suggester maltego-teeth set shellnoob sqlmap thc-ipv6 yersinia beef-xss binwalk bulk-extractor chntpw cuckoo dc3dd ddrescue dumpzilla extundelete foremost galleta guymager iphone-backup-analyzer p0f pdf-parser pdfid pdgmail peepdf volatility xplico dhcpig funkload iaxflood inviteflood ipv6-toolkit mdk3 reaver rtpflood slowhttptest t50 termineter thc-ipv6 thc-ssl-dos acccheck burpsuite cewl chntpw cisco-auditing-tool cmospwd creddump crunch findmyhash gpp-decrypt hash-identifier hexorbase john johnny keimpx maltego-teeth maskprocessor multiforcer ncrack oclgausscrack pack patator polenum rainbowcrack rcracki-mt rsmangler statsprocessor thc-pptp-bruter truecrack webscarab wordlists zaproxy apktool dex2jar python-distorm3 edb-debugger jad javasnoop jd ollydbg smali valgrind yara android-sdk apktool arduino dex2jar sakis3g smali && wget http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/downloads/bing-ip2hosts-0.4.tar.gz && tar -xzvf bing-ip2hosts-0.4.tar.gz && cp bing-ip2hosts-0.4/bing-ip2hosts /usr/local/bin/

This worked for me .

<!-- gh-comment-id:397555609 --> @gauthamrajesh0 commented on GitHub (Jun 15, 2018): None of the methods worked for me so after adding the repositories I executed the following command to install all tools except w3af sudo apt-get -f install acccheck ace-voip amap automater braa casefile cdpsnarf cisco-torch cookie-cadger copy-router-config dmitry dnmap dnsenum dnsmap dnsrecon dnstracer dnswalk dotdotpwn enum4linux enumiax exploitdb fierce firewalk fragroute fragrouter ghost-phisher golismero goofile lbd maltego-teeth masscan metagoofil miranda nmap p0f parsero recon-ng set smtp-user-enum snmpcheck sslcaudit sslsplit sslstrip sslyze thc-ipv6 theharvester tlssled twofi urlcrazy wireshark wol-e xplico ismtp intrace hping3 bbqsql bed cisco-auditing-tool cisco-global-exploiter cisco-ocs cisco-torch copy-router-config doona dotdotpwn greenbone-security-assistant hexorbase jsql lynis nmap ohrwurm openvas-cli openvas-manager openvas-scanner oscanner powerfuzzer sfuzz sidguesser siparmyknife sqlmap sqlninja sqlsus thc-ipv6 tnscmd10g unix-privesc-check yersinia aircrack-ng asleap bluelog blueranger bluesnarfer bully cowpatty crackle eapmd5pass fern-wifi-cracker ghost-phisher giskismet gqrx kalibrate-rtl killerbee kismet mdk3 mfcuk mfoc mfterm multimon-ng pixiewps reaver redfang spooftooph wifi-honey wifitap wifite apache-users arachni bbqsql blindelephant burpsuite cutycapt davtest deblaze dirb dirbuster fimap funkload grabber jboss-autopwn joomscan jsql maltego-teeth padbuster paros parsero plecost powerfuzzer proxystrike recon-ng skipfish sqlmap sqlninja sqlsus ua-tester uniscan vega webscarab websploit wfuzz wpscan xsser zaproxy burpsuite dnschef fiked hamster-sidejack hexinject iaxflood inviteflood ismtp mitmproxy ohrwurm protos-sip rebind responder rtpbreak rtpinsertsound rtpmixsound sctpscan siparmyknife sipp sipvicious sniffjoke sslsplit sslstrip thc-ipv6 voiphopper webscarab wifi-honey wireshark xspy yersinia zaproxy cryptcat cymothoa dbd dns2tcp http-tunnel httptunnel intersect nishang polenum powersploit pwnat ridenum sbd u3-pwn webshells weevely casefile cutycapt dos2unix dradis keepnote magictree metagoofil nipper-ng pipal armitage backdoor-factory cisco-auditing-tool cisco-global-exploiter cisco-ocs cisco-torch crackle jboss-autopwn linux-exploit-suggester maltego-teeth set shellnoob sqlmap thc-ipv6 yersinia beef-xss binwalk bulk-extractor chntpw cuckoo dc3dd ddrescue dumpzilla extundelete foremost galleta guymager iphone-backup-analyzer p0f pdf-parser pdfid pdgmail peepdf volatility xplico dhcpig funkload iaxflood inviteflood ipv6-toolkit mdk3 reaver rtpflood slowhttptest t50 termineter thc-ipv6 thc-ssl-dos acccheck burpsuite cewl chntpw cisco-auditing-tool cmospwd creddump crunch findmyhash gpp-decrypt hash-identifier hexorbase john johnny keimpx maltego-teeth maskprocessor multiforcer ncrack oclgausscrack pack patator polenum rainbowcrack rcracki-mt rsmangler statsprocessor thc-pptp-bruter truecrack webscarab wordlists zaproxy apktool dex2jar python-distorm3 edb-debugger jad javasnoop jd ollydbg smali valgrind yara android-sdk apktool arduino dex2jar sakis3g smali && wget http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/downloads/bing-ip2hosts-0.4.tar.gz && tar -xzvf bing-ip2hosts-0.4.tar.gz && cp bing-ip2hosts-0.4/bing-ip2hosts /usr/local/bin/ This worked for me .
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@jdunn10 commented on GitHub (Jul 23, 2018):

The above fix still works, but you may need to modify the source to have the shebang (#!) as first line, otherwise katoolin will fail by attempting bash execution instead of the python interpreter (at least on my ubuntu installation).
From this:
`
# Original file: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin

# Removed w3af
# if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import sys, traceback
`

To this:
`
#!/usr/bin/python

# Original file: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin

# Removed w3af
# if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html

import os
import sys, traceback
`

<!-- gh-comment-id:407160898 --> @jdunn10 commented on GitHub (Jul 23, 2018): The above fix still works, but you may need to modify the source to have the shebang (#!) as first line, otherwise katoolin will fail by attempting bash execution instead of the python interpreter (at least on my ubuntu installation). From this: ` \# Original file: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin \# Removed w3af \# if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html #!/usr/bin/python import os import sys, traceback ` To this: ` #!/usr/bin/python \# Original file: https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin \# Removed w3af \# if you want to install w3af install it manually from here: http://docs.w3af.org/en/latest/install.html import os import sys, traceback `
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@bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Jul 23, 2018):

@jdunn10 updated 👍

<!-- gh-comment-id:407169096 --> @bhupendpatil commented on GitHub (Jul 23, 2018): @jdunn10 updated 👍
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@ballo commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2018):

Is there a reason this isn't committed?

<!-- gh-comment-id:437540397 --> @ballo commented on GitHub (Nov 10, 2018): Is there a reason this isn't committed?
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