w3af installation

[rloc]

Hi all

I have just completed a new install of Raring and I now need to install w3af.

My problem is that Raring installs Python 2.7.4 and the latest version of w3af will only run when Python 2.6 is installed.

I am not too happy with the idea of removing Python 2.7.4 since I assume there are many dependencies which will get broken if I do so.

Can anyone point in me in the right direction with this?

[SteveRiley]

Try this.

mkdir ~/python2.6
cd ~/python2.6
export ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture)
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.6/python2.6_2.6.7-4ubuntu1.1_$ARCH.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.6/python2.6-minimal_2.6.7-4ubuntu1.1_$ARCH.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.6/python2.6-dev_2.6.7-4ubuntu1.1_$ARCH.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.6/libpython2.6_2.6.7-4ubuntu1.1_$ARCH.deb
sudo dpkg -i *python*.deb

If you receive no errors, then clean up. This just removes the downloaded packages, but won't uninstall Python 2.6:

rm *python*.deb
cd ..
rmdir python2.6

If you see errors, reply here and let us know what they are.