W3af install on Ubuntu 14.04

Running apt-get install didn't work so here is what I did.

sudo apt-get install git

Install Python installer (pip)

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential

sudo pip install --upgrade pip

sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv


If you don't have scapy on the system:

apt-get install scapy - install necessary libs.

Install these dependencies:


sudo apt-get install python-svn
sudo pip install pybloomfiltermmap
sudo apt-get install graphviz
sudo apt-get install libgraphviz-dev
sudo apt-get install libgraphviz
sudo apt-get install python-gtk2
sudo apt-get install python-gtksourceview2
sudo apt-get install python-scapy



All this needs to be installed as well.

  sudo apt-get install python2.7
  sudo pip install fpconst
  sudo pip install nltk
  sudo pip install SOAPpy
  sudo pip install pyPdf
  sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
  sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev
  sudo pip install lxml
  sudo pip install pyopenssl



More libs:




 sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev libyaml-dev

Apparently the python version also needs modules:

clamd github git.util pybloomfilter esmre phply nltk chardet pdfminer concurrent.futures OpenSSL lxml scapy.config guess_language cluster msgpack ntlm Halberd darts.lib.utils xdot

After running the above follow the instructions and install clamav.


After installing any missing operating system packages, use pip to install the remaining modules:

    sudo pip install clamd==1.0.1 PyGithub==1.21.0 GitPython==0.3.2.RC1 pybloomfiltermmap==0.3.11 esmre==0.3.1 phply==0.9.1 nltk==2.0.4 chardet==2.1.1 pdfminer==20110515 futures==2.1.5 pyOpenSSL==0.13.1 lxml==2.3.2 scapy-real==2.2.0-dev guess-language==0.2 cluster==1.1.1b3 msgpack-python==0.2.4 python-ntlm==1.0.1 halberd==0.2.4 darts.util.lru==0.5 xdot==0.6

Install & Launch:

git clone https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af.git
$ cd w3af
$ ./w3af_gui