This used to be good, what happened?

[mvrozanti]

1. python3 execute.py fails with the following:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: scapy in /home/m/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages (2.5.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyqt5 in /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages (5.15.9)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement csv (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for csv

Nevermind the fact that I don't like my scripts trying to install things by themselves, which is not standard; of course running execute.py fails, csv is a built-in module in python, pip cannot install this on latest python versions. Dependencies and their versions should be listed in a separate, requirements.txt file. It's such a basic thing.

2. Even after modifying execute.py to take out the monstrosity that is the install_prerequisites call, then I come to realize that script in particular calls nothing else, and the program exits with status code zero.

3. It doesn't stop there: I had the above problems by just running the cloned latest main branch version. After giving up on trying to run the cloned repo, I tried installing it through the AUR on Arch Linux, and I'm baffled that it fails with the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/fern-wifi-cracker/execute.py", line 101, in <module>
    initialize()
  File "/usr/share/fern-wifi-cracker/execute.py", line 46, in initialize
    create_directory()
  File "/usr/share/fern-wifi-cracker/execute.py", line 88, in create_directory
    os.mkdir('fern-settings')                               # Create permanent settings directory
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'fern-settings'

That's also an absolute mess, it will not and should not get permissions to make directories under /usr/share. If there is a need for local setting files, they should be put under ~/.local/share or ~/.cache or whatever. That's also such a basic thing.

I don't know what else could be wrong, but I'm just disappointed. This used to be such a neat little tool, and it's a mess now. I can't even see if there's a way to run this thing. Why does it have to be so painful? Has anyone managed to resucitate this project?

EDIT: I just noticed the only other branch in this repo has a single "wiki" file. You can't get the instructions to run this thing right, why bother with a wiki, and why the hell is the wiki in another branch? What is going on

[savio-code]

Please try the new commit.. there was an error in execute,py