Once the package gets approved in Debian or Ubuntu, it can become available 'forever' for future reference, since a snapshot of both its source version as well as its binary version are present at bian.

This is a contribution in the true spirit of 'Free Software and giving back to the community' (even though I understand that, sometimes, you may simply want to use something quickly).

Expanding on the point above, when a package gets included in the distribution, its compiled/prepared version becomes available to every user of the distribution and it obviates the need of 'I have the program and can send it to you privately'.

Packaging programs is a very nice way to learn about the programs and your system in general and there are nice folks (including yours truly) that are always willing to help people enrich our distributions.

Asking in Debian or Ubuntu for a package like this is a very good way to have it included not only in your Ubuntu release but with high probability, in future ones, so that you can keep using the program.

I understand that a Debian package may not have existed at the time the question was asked, but: It is Linux OS compatible and runs on a word-list that contains thousands of passwords to be used in the attack, but the command line interface of CoWPAtty is mediocre.

There is a high probability of programs breaking when one of their underlying libraries is removed from the system (like OpenSSL pre-1.1 to OpenSSL 1.1 or any other library transition at all). CoWPAtty is an automated dictionary attack tool developed for cracking passwords of WPA-PSK based networks. This applies in general and also especially for the case of security-minded people asking/learning about security.Īlso, installing things from source and compiling yourself without them being in a Debian package makes dpkg (and higher level tools, like apt and aptitude) not aware of removing libraries that the tools depend on, like libpcap and OpenSSL (via libssl-variants). Internet & Network tools downloads - WildPackets OmniPeek by WildPackets and many more programs are available for instant and free download. This answer of mine tries to keeping in spirit with the 'don't install packages from source if you don't have to' and to 'stay only with packages from curated repositories'. The appropriate entry for /etc/apt/sources.list would be, according to the documentation: deb kali-rolling main non-free contrib You will not only have the version that others indicated, but also future versions updated automatically. My recommendation would be to grab cowpatty from Kali Linux's repository and keep it updated with your system. The appropriate way of installing cowpatty in your system is to grab a carefully packaged deb from a distribution that is compatible with Ubuntu.

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