How To Install wig on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is wig

wig is:

This package contains a web application information gathering tool, which can identify numerous Content Management Systems and other administrative applications.

The application fingerprinting is based on checksums and string matching of known files for different versions of CMSes. This results in a score being calculated for each detected CMS and its versions. Each detected CMS is displayed along with the most probable version(s) of it. The score calculation is based on weights and the amount of “hits” for a given checksum.

wig also tries to guess the operating system on the server based on the ‘server’ and ‘x-powered-by’ headers. A database containing known header values for different operating systems is included in wig, which allows wig to guess Microsoft Windows versions and Linux distribution and version.

There are three methods to install wig 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 wig Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wig

Install wig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wig

Install wig 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 wig using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wig

How To Uninstall wig on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wig

Uninstall wig And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wig

Remove wig Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wig

Remove wig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wig

Dependencies

wig have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• wig website

Summary

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