How To Install wapua on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wapua on Kali Linux.

What is wapua

wapua is:

wApua is a web browser for browsing WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) pages written in the Wireless Markup Language (WML; versions 1.1 and 1.2 are supported). Its main purpose is to test or surf WAP pages locally or over HTTP and HTTPS without connecting with a WAP capable mobile phone, which may be expensive or impossible, i.e. in case of WAP pages on the local filesystem.

wApua is written in Perl using libwww-perl and Perl/Tk.

Included in the package is the command line front-end wbmp2xbm to wApua’s internal converter for decoding WAP Wireless Bitmaps (WBMP) into X Bitmaps (XBM).

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

Install wapua Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wapua

Install wapua Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wapua

Install wapua Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install wapua

How To Uninstall wapua on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wapua

Uninstall wapua And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wapua and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wapua

Remove wapua Configurations and Data

To remove wapua configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wapua

Remove wapua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wapua

Dependencies

wapua have the following dependencies:

• libhtml-parser-perl
• libwww-perl
• perl-tk
• perl

References

• wapua website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wapua package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.