Hi Brandon,

Brandon DeYoung schrieb am Montag, 23. September 2002 um 01:03:01 -0500:
>    I'm trying to get nessus 1.2.5 installed on Debian 3.0 Woody. 
> Naturally apt-get installs nessus just fine but the latest package the 
> Debian folks have got is 1.0.10.

But in Debian Sid aka unstable there is nessus 1.2.5-3.

You can compile it 'the Debian Way' :-)

1. Append to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
   deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
   (replace ftp.de.debian.org with your favorite Debian mirror)

2. run 'apt-get update'

3. change to a empty dir, where you like to build the packages
4. run 'apt-get install build-essentials'
5. run 'apt-get source nessus-libraries'
6. cd nessus-libraries
7. check with 'dpkg-checkbuilddeps' which packages you require to build
   this package
8. install the required packages with apt-get install <list of missing
   packages>
   NOTE: Be sure that you have 
   deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
   and
   deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable-proposed-updates  main contrib non-free
   in your sources.list, since you should build against the newest
   libssl for security reasons!!!
9. run 'dpkg-buildpackage -b'
10. wait until the the packages are built; cd ..; dpkg -i libnessus*.deb
11. perform the steps 5-10 for each of the following source packages.
    keep to the order, some  of the first are required for later ones:
    libnasl, nessus-core, nessus-plugins



Thats it!
this took me about 20 mins to compile and install nessus 1.2.5 and
writing this mail. The Debian-Maintainer is doing a great job!


>    I've tried both the install script and hand compilation. The main 
> problem is the install can't locate gtk-config and won't install the GUI 
> client. I'm sure everything needed is there, but perhaps I need to pass 
> the configure script some argument or another?
> 
-- 
Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komm' wieder, keine Frage!!!

   Joerg

Real wealth can only increase.
                -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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