In the noble (or not-so noble if you prefer) tradition of plinking around in my system I decided *stupidly perhaps* to install a network-cracking tool.
Now, you're wondering why right? Simple, I want to learn more about security issues & where holes are in my system & a legal "hack it till you drop" system on the net @ www.sec33.com. Fine, so I got a program called Nessus (conveniently its on MDK's cd's). However a newer version adds some functionality. Now, I have 2 problems to solve. I have RTFMed the site & their tutorial *Only good for the current version I may add*. It tells me how to setup a user/admin & get my Nessus running. Problem: If I try to install it from teh CLI it informs me it will NOT install/run the GUI tool because I don't have "gtk-config" in my path. Now, being a good little dooby (watch Romper-room, they have all sorts of dooby's), i searched & Searched my cd's, my directories, my whole system. I even did a "find *gtk*". That got me a huge list, one of which was "libconf-gtk-xx". Fine, tahts it I say to myself. Wrong. So... went to teh web, searched google & some other RPM sites *Like sourceforge & RPM.net*. No joy. anyone know where I can find this #^@#$ file!? Problem 2: Assuming problem one is solved, I am unable to start the program as a user itself because it tells me my host isn't up or correct. If I input my IP # instead of my HOST in the "Host" box, I get an SSL error, telling me its unable to open SSL. So, back to my cd's & Web I go in search of SSL. It seems I do have SSL installed (how to tell though exactly? I searched for SSL on my system and it tells me open-ssl is installed, teh package I need). So what the hell am I doing wrong here? If anyone has some suggestions/ideas/knowledge about Nessus or how to sovle this crap, please let me know. Thx Femme
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