I had a bit of trouble with this one, and so have the guys at remote-exploit forums…

I wrote a script to try to make it easier.

cd to wherever you want w3af to go, preferably somewhere with plenty of space, then:

wget http://nukeit.org/w3af-bt3.sh
chmod a+x w3af-bt3.sh
./w3af-bt3.sh

Installs/upgrades:

w3af (via svn)
python
glib
pango
gtk+-2
pygobject
pygtk
pysqlite
pydot
pyparsing
SOAPpy
cluster
fpconst
pyPdf
pygoogle
pywordnet

Tested on bt3 final running on virtualbox:

w3af bt3 350x285 w3af on backtrack 3 final (svn style)