Nessus install leading to numerous errors

[mewilh0]

I appologize for this post but I have been searching for an answer for about 2 days now. I am attempting to install nessus via any means that I can find i.e. (lynx -source http://install.nessus.org | sh, running the nessus.sh script, tried yum install nessus, and apt-get install nessus) None of these work. Went to downloading the tarball and running ./configure but now I am getting gtk errors. I have downloaded all dependencies for gtk and am now trying to configure it. I keep getting "configure: error: Xft version 2 is required for x11 target." Does anyone know how to get around this? or where to get this package? Tried all of the above options but to no avail. Any help would be helpful. Thanks.

[jcliburn]

Why not use the rpm(s) in extras?

[jcliburn@osprey ~]$ yum list nessus*
Setting up repositories
updates [1/3]
core [2/3]
extras [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
nessus-client.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-core.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-core-devel.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-gui.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-libraries.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-libraries-devel.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras
nessus-server.x86_64 2.2.7-1.fc5 extras

[mewilh0]

I am very sorry.... I didn't even put the version in my original post. I am trying to install on Fedora core 3. when i run the yum list nessus* i don't get any packages but i am not used to using yum. I normallly use apt. Is there a config file I need to edit for yum to see the extras repository?

[jcliburn]

This should work.

[jcliburn@osprey ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo
[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[extras-debuginfo]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[extras-source]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - Source
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/SRPMS/
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[mewilh0]

I have added this repository but I still get no entires for yum list nessus*.... Anything else i can do? Here is what I am seeing....
yum list nessus*
Setting up Repos
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
updates-re: ################################################## 910/910
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
extras : ################################################## 2359/2359

[mewilh0]

I have found that nessus is not available in the yum install list for fedora core 3...... so here is the big question.... should i go ahead and upgrade to core 5? I don't really have anything on this install that I need to keep. I guess I will just try to do a clean install of core 5 instead of 3..... Hopefully I will be able to post back soon once I get this all straightened out. Thanks for the help

[jcliburn]

If I were you, I'd go ahead and upgrade to FC5.

[cisco80211]

I' m having the same issue:

I can't install via yum, but I have an RPM and this is the results:

[root@localhost Desktop]# yum install Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Err
no 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out
Trying other mirror.
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/3]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [3/3]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 459 kB 00:13
updates : ################################################## 1352/1352
Added 1 new packages, deleted 5 old in 1.84 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Examining Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm: Nessus - 3.0.3-fc5.i386
Marking Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package Nessus.i386 0:3.0.3-fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ===========================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ===========================
Installing:
Nessus i386 3.0.3-fc5 Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm
31 M

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 31 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:


ackage Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm is not signed

I'm running FC5 on a laptop

[cisco80211]

I fixed this and installed nessus correctally by issuing this command: rpm -ivh Nessus-3.0.3-fc5.i386.rpm

I installed it fine and then activated it and downloaded the updated plugins via:

/opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --register xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

[Jman]

Right, for now you have to get your own plugins due to licencing issues on the supposedly GPL plugin package.