Install Nessus Fedora



The article below show how you can install Nessus the security venerability scanner on Fedora system.  The example below show step by step to install Nessus on Fedora system and this installation step are done on Linux Fedora 15 operating system.

Install Nessus on Fedora 15

1.  Login on your Linux Fedora system.

2.  Open terminal and execute su - command.

3.  Execute yum install *nessus* as show on example below to start the process of installing Nessus, let yum running until...
[root@fedora ~]# yum install *nessus*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: free.nchc.org.tw
 * rpmfusion-free: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: download1.rpmfusion.org
 * updates: free.nchc.org.tw
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nessus-client.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15 will be installed
---> Package nessus-core.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15 will be installed
---> Package nessus-core-devel.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15 will be installed
---> Package nessus-gui.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15 will be installed
---> Package nessus-libraries.i686 0:2.2.11-4.fc15 will be installed
---> Package nessus-libraries-devel.i686 0:2.2.11-4.fc15 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libpcap-devel for package: nessus-libraries-devel-2.2.11-4.fc15.i686
---> Package nessus-server.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libnasl.so.2 for package: nessus-server-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libnasl.i686 0:2.2.11-8.fc15 will be installed
---> Package libpcap-devel.i686 14:1.1.1-3.fc15 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================
 Package                          Arch           Version                     Repository        Size
====================================================================================================
Installing:
 nessus-client                    i686           2.2.11-6.fc15               fedora            95 k
 nessus-core                      i686           2.2.11-6.fc15               fedora            71 k
 nessus-core-devel                i686           2.2.11-6.fc15               fedora            23 k
 nessus-gui                       i686           2.2.11-6.fc15               fedora           179 k
 nessus-libraries                 i686           2.2.11-4.fc15               fedora            74 k
 nessus-libraries-devel           i686           2.2.11-4.fc15               fedora            26 k
 nessus-server                    i686           2.2.11-6.fc15               fedora           134 k
Installing for dependencies:
 libnasl                          i686           2.2.11-8.fc15               fedora           126 k
 libpcap-devel                    i686           14:1.1.1-3.fc15             fedora            98 k

Transaction Summary
====================================================================================================
Install       9 Package(s)

Total download size: 826 k
Installed size: 2.3 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

4.  till you see the yes or no option... type in y and hit enter key to start the nessus installation process..
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 826 k
(1/9): libnasl-2.2.11-8.fc15.i686.rpm                                        | 126 kB     00:01    
(2/9): libpcap-devel-1.1.1-3.fc15.i686.rpm                                   |  98 kB     00:01    
(3/9): nessus-client-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686.rpm                                  |  95 kB     00:00    
(4/9): nessus-core-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686.rpm                                    |  71 kB     00:01    
(5/9): nessus-core-devel-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686.rpm                              |  23 kB     00:00    
(6/9): nessus-gui-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686.rpm                                     | 179 kB     00:01    
(7/9): nessus-libraries-2.2.11-4.fc15.i686.rpm                               |  74 kB     00:01    
(8/9): nessus-libraries-devel-2.2.11-4.fc15.i686.rpm                         |  26 kB     00:00    
(9/9): nessus-server-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686.rpm                                  | 134 kB     00:01    
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                64 kB/s | 826 kB     00:12    
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : nessus-libraries-2.2.11-4.fc15.i686                                              1/9
  Installing : nessus-core-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686                                                   2/9
  Installing : 14:libpcap-devel-1.1.1-3.fc15.i686                                               3/9
  Installing : nessus-libraries-devel-2.2.11-4.fc15.i686                                        4/9
  Installing : nessus-core-devel-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686                                             5/9
  Installing : libnasl-2.2.11-8.fc15.i686                                                       6/9
  Installing : nessus-server-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686                                                 7/9
  Installing : nessus-client-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686                                                 8/9
  Installing : nessus-gui-2.2.11-6.fc15.i686                                                    9/9

Installed:
  nessus-client.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15             nessus-core.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15                  
  nessus-core-devel.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15         nessus-gui.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15                   
  nessus-libraries.i686 0:2.2.11-4.fc15          nessus-libraries-devel.i686 0:2.2.11-4.fc15       
  nessus-server.i686 0:2.2.11-6.fc15           

Dependency Installed:
  libnasl.i686 0:2.2.11-8.fc15                  libpcap-devel.i686 14:1.1.1-3.fc15                

Complete!
[root@fedora ~]#



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

after installing nessus, how to start a web https//127.0.0.1 port 8834 on fedora.

please help

Anonymous said...

This is a old version (2.2) of nessus. You can't access by web interface and there is no plugins, so download the newest version from nessus.org