owtf install on Kali2 fails - cryptography

[macubergeek]

Ran the installer script on kale and install failed:

Found existing installation: cryptography 0.9.3
Not uninstalling cryptography at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
Running setup.py install for cryptography

Installed /tmp/pip-build-UP8H5r/cryptography/cffi-1.2.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-UP8H5r/cryptography/setup.py", line 307, in <module>
    **keywords_with_side_effects(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 266, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 301, in finalize_options
    ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2190, in load
    ['__name__'])
ImportError: No module named setuptools_ext
Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-UP8H5r/cryptography/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-VjSJ28-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:

Installed /tmp/pip-build-UP8H5r/cryptography/cffi-1.2.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

File "/tmp/pip-build-UP8H5r/cryptography/setup.py", line 307, in

**keywords_with_side_effects(sys.argv)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup

_setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 266, in init

_Distribution.__init__(self,attrs)

[viyatb]

Are you using a pre-built VMware image for Kali 2.0? There have been some setuptools problems reported for it.

[macubergeek]

No I built the VMware image myself from iso

[viyatb]

Can you give the setuptools version from your VM? pip show setuptools
Or does this help https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/MITMf/issues/159?

[macubergeek]

ok here it is:

root@kali2:~/Desktop# pip show setuptools

Name: setuptools
Version: 18.2
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires:
root@kali2:~/Desktop#

[viyatb]

Can you check this fix https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/MITMf/issues/159?

[macubergeek]

Didn't work
I tried that last night. There is no requirements.txt file in the version of owtf I pulled down with git.

[macubergeek]

there is an install/owtf.pip file which lists the dependencies but cryptography isn't in there. btw python-cryptography is already installed in Kali2

[viyatb]

Yes, there is no requirements.txt file. I meant the actual fix:
pip uninstall cryptography
apt-get install python-cryptography

[macubergeek]

pip uninstall cryptography doesn't work on Kali2
root@kali2:~# pip uninstall cryptography
Not uninstalling cryptography at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS

[macubergeek]

don't know if this helps but:
root@kali2:/opt/gitlist# pip freeze | grep crypto
cryptography==0.9.3
pycrypto==2.6.1
pycryptopp==0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958

So the python cryptography module is already installed so when I go to install owtf it craps out because it's already there. So why can't owtf just use whats there already?
Looks like owtf installer script in Kali2 now broken.

[viyatb]

Looks like Kali issue/feature - they have chown the packages directory so that it doesn't break the other tools.
Let me see and come up with a new installation method, preferably using virtualenv :)

[viyatb]

Duplicate #516