How To Install cewl on Debian 10

Learn how to install cewl on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cewl is custom word list generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cewl on Debian 10.

What is `cewl`

cewl is:

CeWL (Custom Word List generator) is a ruby app which spiders a given URL, up to a specified depth, and returns a list of words which can then be used for password crackers such as John the Ripper. Optionally, CeWL can follow external links.

CeWL can also create a list of email addresses found in mailto links. These email addresses can be used as usernames in brute force actions.

Another tool provided by CeWL project is FAB (Files Already Bagged). FAB extracts the content of the author/creator fields, from metadata of the some files, to create lists of possible usernames. These usernames can be used in association with the password list generated by CeWL. FAB uses the same metadata extraction techniques that CeWL. Currently, FAB process Office pre 2007, Office 2007 and PDF formats.

CeWL is useful in security tests and forensics investigations. CeWL is pronounced “cool”.

There are three methods to install cewl on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cewl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cewl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cewl

Install cewl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cewl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cewl

Install cewl Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cewl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cewl

How To Uninstall cewl on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cewl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cewl

Uninstall cewl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cewl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cewl

Remove cewl Configurations and Data

To remove cewl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cewl

Remove cewl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cewl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cewl

Dependencies

cewl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cewl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.