Something that's not mentioned in the FAQ or the 'download" portion of the web site is whether nessus is available as a .rpm or .deb etc
Already mentioned in bug #192 [1], the bug page also provides some information which might be useful to do. Renaud is working on it.
Of course Real Men compile their own <grin> , but it seems a surprising omission. My second nessus box runs Debian, and after some fossiking I found: http://people.debian.org/~jfs/nessus/2.0.0/
While I'm sure this is fine it's not clear that this is really encouraged/supported by either nessus.org or debian.org - what *is* the official line?
I sent that to the list, archives are not available (yet, check bug #191). These packages are based on the lastest packages in Debian but upgrade to 2.0.0 code. Josip Rodin, the 'official' Debian maintainer, is (hopefully) working on using these packages to send a maintainer upload to Debian's 'unstable' (see Debian bug #182411 [2]).
If he is tight on time I will probably make an upload to Debian's 'experimental' area for these packages. Just FYI I'm also a Debian maintainer (otherwise I wouldn't be able to put things up in people.debian.org) and I was the first official maintainer for Nessus in Debian until Josip took care of the packages.
Hope that clears something up.
Regards
Javi
[1] http://bugs.nessus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182411
