On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0500, lyhong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 questions about nessus 2.0.1 installation.(I installed it the
> boring way by downloading all 4 files):
>
> 1. in redhat 8.0 I had serious problem to install nessus-core.
> "./configure" said that it found gtk-2.0 in my system and it would be
> extremenly buggy to compile the client with it. The fact is redhat 8.0
> comes with both gtk+-1.2.10 and gtk+-2.0. I tried several times to get
> rid of gtk+-2.0 w/o success and although I deleted all the gtk+-2.0
> files I could find, nessus-core still complained. At the end, I
> compile it with the option --disable-gtk which worked. But then I
> cannot run nessus in X. More to it later.
Install gtk+-devel-1.2.10 and try again.
> 2. in Crux distro, which only has gtk+-1.2, nessus installed smoothly.
> But the man page did not work. I suspect that nessus requires some
> dependency packages since man page works fine in redhat 8.0
Nessus installs its man pages under $prefix/man/. It's very likely that
your distribution only sets MANPATH to /usr/man/ (or /usr/doc/man/ or
/usr/share/man/).
Solution : export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/man
-- Renaud
