This applies in general and also especially for the case of security-minded people asking/learning about security.Īlso, installing things from source and compiling yourself without them being in a Debian package makes dpkg (and higher level tools, like apt and aptitude) not aware of removing libraries that the tools depend on, like libpcap and OpenSSL (via libssl-variants). This answer of mine tries to keeping in spirit with the 'don't install packages from source if you don't have to' and to 'stay only with packages from curated repositories'. The appropriate entry for /etc/apt/sources.list would be, according to the documentation: deb kali-rolling main non-free contrib You will not only have the version that others indicated, but also future versions updated automatically. My recommendation would be to grab cowpatty from Kali Linux's repository and keep it updated with your system.
The appropriate way of installing cowpatty in your system is to grab a carefully packaged deb from a distribution that is compatible with Ubuntu.
