** THIS IS DEPRECATED **

With the aim of supporting as many linux distributions as possible, OWTF tries to make the installation procedure as smooth as possible. But it is a challenging task to provide install scripts for different distributions and control them accordingly.

The stuff needed by OWTF is divided into three categories (in the order of their installation):

• Some restricted tools and dictionaries which are distro-independent => These are installed using basic commands
• Some utilities and tools which are distro dependent => These are installed using distro specific commands
• Python libraries required by OWTF => OWTF uses pip to install these libraries

These are present in install/restricted.cfg. Example

[SSL cipher Check]
directory = %(RootDir)s/tools/restricted/ssl/ssl-cipher-check
command = wget http://unspecific.com/ssl/ssl-cipher-check.pl; chmod 700 *

• The directory is used to check if the tool is already installed
• If not, command is executed inside the directory
• If there are too many commands to run, a script can also be called like

[CMS Explorer]
directory = %(RootDir)s/tools/restricted/cms-explorer
command = sh %(RootDir)s/install/update_convert_cms_explorer_dicts.sh %(RootDir)s

• Different distributions have different install scripts. It is recommended to create a directory for a distro inside install/ and place all relevent install & patch scripts inside it.
• Register the distribution in install/linux-distributions.cfg. Example

[Kali Linux]
install = sh %(RootDir)s/install/kali/install.sh %(RootDir)s

NOTE: Only one command should be provided for a distribution in config file, so it should be ensured that all other scripts are called from it. Check the install scripts of kali for more help :P

• Pip is used to install owtf libraries, all these are present in install/owtf.pip