Ryan,

    Please read comments inline,

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Ryan Dewhurst <ryandewhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I first run the latest SVN revision (3956) of w3af_gui on
> BackTrack4 RC2, I got the following error:
>
> You have to install nltk.
> - On Debian based distributions: apt-get install python-nltk
>
> As far as I'm aware BT4 RC2 is based off of Ubuntu which is a Debian
> system. When running 'apt-get install python-nltk' (as root) it cannot
> find the package.

    That's strange! BT4 might be based on an old version of
Debian/Ubuntu. The python-nltk package exists in ubuntu, I wasn't
drunk when I wrote this :)
    http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/python-nltk

> To get it working I took the following steps:
>
> wget http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.09.tar.gz
> tar -xzvf PyYAML-3.09.tar.gz
> cd PyYAML-3.09
> python setup.py install
> cd ..
> wget http://nltk.googlecode.com/files/nltk-2.0b9.tar.gz
> tar -xzvf nltk-2.0b9.tar.gz
> cd nltk-2.0b9
> python setup.py install

    Just updated the dependencyCheck.py file in order to incorporate
your feedback.
    https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/changeset/3957/trunk

> After that w3af_gui would run. Just thought I would put it here in
> case anyone else came across the same situation.
>

    Thanks!

> Ryan
>
> Ryan Dewhurst
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