cewl command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cewl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cewl: command not found

Solutions to cewl: command not found

How To Fix cewl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cewl is provided by cewl package.

cewl is:

CeWL (Custom Word List generator) is a ruby app which spiders a given URL, up to a specified depth, and returns a list of words which can then be used for password crackers such as John the Ripper. Optionally, CeWL can follow external links.

CeWL can also create a list of email addresses found in mailto links. These email addresses can be used as usernames in brute force actions.

Another tool provided by CeWL project is FAB (Files Already Bagged). FAB extracts the content of the author/creator fields, from metadata of the some files, to create lists of possible usernames. These usernames can be used in association with the password list generated by CeWL. FAB uses the same metadata extraction techniques that CeWL. Currently, FAB process Office pre 2007, Office 2007 and PDF formats.

CeWL is useful in security tests and forensics investigations. CeWL is pronounced “cool”.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cewl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cewl.

sudo apt -y install cewl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cewl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cewl command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.