How To Install wifi-honey on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wifi-honey on Kali Linux.

What is wifi-honey

wifi-honey is:

In the case of WPA/WPA2, by running airodump-ng along side this you also end up capturing the first two packets of the four way handshake and so can attempt to crack the key with either aircrack-ng or coWPAtty.

What this script does is to automate the setup process, it creates five monitor mode interfaces, four are used as APs and the fifth is used for airodump-ng. To make things easier, rather than having five windows all this is done in a screen session which allows you to switch between screens to see what is going on. All sessions are labelled so you know which is which.

There are three methods to install wifi-honey 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 wifi-honey Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wifi-honey

Install wifi-honey Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wifi-honey

Install wifi-honey 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 wifi-honey using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wifi-honey

How To Uninstall wifi-honey on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the wifi-honey package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wifi-honey

Uninstall wifi-honey And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wifi-honey

Remove wifi-honey Configurations and Data

To remove wifi-honey configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wifi-honey

Remove wifi-honey configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wifi-honey

Dependencies

wifi-honey have the following dependencies:

• screen
• aircrack-ng

References

• wifi-honey website

Summary

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