Error Installing w3af : Pip is present still cannot run

[vlakhani28]

Hello There,

My Kali has already installed pip but still w3af cannot detect it.

Any way of how can i run the w3af console and remove this error

Thanks

[siumhossain]

follow this video How to Install w3af in Kali Linux Ethical Hacking Part 23

these w3af missing some python dependencies. and its need those dependencies for running. run this command before you run w3af console script.

pip install pybloomfiltermmap==0.3.14 phply==0.9.1 nltk==3.0.1 chardet==3.0.4 tblib==0.2.0 pdfminer==20140328 futures==3.2.0 pyOpenSSL==18.0.0 ndg-httpsclient==0.4.0 pyasn1==0.4.2 lxml==3.4.4 scapy==2.4.0 guess-language==0.2 cluster==1.1.1b3 msgpack==0.5.6 python-ntlm==1.0.1 halberd==0.2.4 darts.util.lru==0.5 Jinja2==2.10 vulndb==0.1.1 markdown==2.6.1 psutil==5.4.8 ds-store==1.1.2 termcolor==1.1.0 mitmproxy==0.13 ruamel.ordereddict==0.4.8 Flask==0.10.1 PyYAML==3.12 tldextract==1.7.2 pebble==4.3.8 acora==2.1 esmre==0.3.1 diff-match-patch==20121119 bravado-core==5.15.0 lz4==1.1.0 vulners==1.3.0 ipaddresses==0.0.2 subprocess32==3.5.4 xdot==0.6

see what happened next :)

[vlakhani28]

Actually all those dependencies have been already installed. I have pip running in my kali machine already.

The issue is that w3af is not able to detect pip which is already installed.

[siumhossain]

its a bash script then why should you run

python2 w3af_console

its not a python script you should run like this

./w3af_console

[vlakhani28]

Yes that was the first thing i tried but then

I Googled out some solution for it and came across a solution which said run it with python2 thats how it worked for me

Also it states that python-pip is not available and only python3-pip is available

[zencharcoal]

Hi vlakhani28,

The python-pip package is deprecated since python2 is end of life. As the sw requires python-pip for python2, you will continue receiving this error in frustration as no internet sources will help you...I did too.

The solution is much more simple. For any scripts within w3af that generate this error, you will need to edit the script file and remove or comment the dependency check...be sure that you have other dependencies installed first and that you have installed pip for python2 properly (even if the python-pip package cannot be found).

Hope this helps.