How To Install wig on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wig on Ubuntu.
What is wig
wig is:
This package contains a web application information gathering tool, which can identify numerous Content Management Systems and other administrative applications.
The application fingerprinting is based on checksums and string matching of known files for different versions of CMSes. This results in a score being calculated for each detected CMS and its versions. Each detected CMS is displayed along with the most probable version(s) of it. The score calculation is based on weights and the amount of “hits” for a given checksum.
wig also tries to guess the operating system on the server based on the ‘server’ and ‘x-powered-by’ headers. A database containing known header values for different operating systems is included in wig, which allows wig to guess Microsoft Windows versions and Linux distribution and version.
There are three methods to install wig on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wig using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wig
Install wig Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wig using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wig
Install wig Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wig using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wig
How To Uninstall wig on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the wig package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wig
Uninstall wig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wig and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wig
Remove wig Configurations and Data
To remove wig configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wig
Remove wig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wig configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wig
Dependencies
wig have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wig package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.