Yersinia GUI not working on Kali Linux

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Issue - Yersinia has been configured with --disable-gtk option

Lately while working on Kali Linux I encountered this error when trying to execute yersinia -G and the Yersinia GUI was not working.

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   Hmmm... it seems that you don't have gtk support or Yersinia
   has been configured with --disable-gtk option...
   Go and get it!!

I was using following release of Kali Linux

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└─# lsb_release -a                 
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Kali
Description:    Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release:    2024.1
Codename:   kali-rolling

Solution

I tried to search online for some solutions but couldn't find any. The weird part is that I had installed yersinia by using apt package manager and it has no such option to enable or disable GTK so I assumed it may be a BUG as I could find a couple of users had reported the same issue on GitHub.

To fix this I manually cloned the yersinia repo from github and compiled the binary. So first we need to remove the existing package:

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apt remove --auto-remove yersinia
apt purge --auto-remove yersinia

Next, use git clone to copy the Yersinia repository directly into /opt/yersinia on the Kali Linux machine:

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git clone https://github.com/tomac/yersinia /opt/yersinia

Next we need to install some dependent packages required for compilation:

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apt install autoconf libgtk-3-dev libnet1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libpcap-dev -y

NOTE

The libpcap-dev package is required or else you may get error during compilation as !!! couldn't find a complete set of pcap headers.

The rolling Kali yersinia package can ship without GTK support; rebuilding from GitHub follows the same autotools path as install airmon-ng on Kali Linux when apt binaries are not enough. Once the required packages are installed, navigate inside /opt/yersinia and execute ./autogen.sh.

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cd /opt/yersinia
./autogen.sh

Look out for any errors. If there are no errors then execute the following command to configure yersinia with GTK:

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./configure --with-gtk

Next complete the compilation:

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make
make install

Now attempt to access the Yersinia GUI:

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yersinia -G

and this time the GUI has successfully loaded and we don't get the same error as seen earlier.

Hope this helps.