Whit, I am a little bit late to the thread. But I am new to OpenVAS and recently had to wrestle with compiling it. With the libraries 5.0.2 and associated files just posted on August 2, I can report very good results. No errors so far. Here is my build and startup recipe
Alan #! /bin/sh # install build dependencies apt-get update apt-get -y install cmake make pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-dev libssh-dev libpcap0.8-dev libgpgme11-dev libldap2-dev uuid-dev bison sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev xsltproc libxslt1-dev alien nsis mkdir oi # openvas installation directory cd oi wget --no-check-certificate ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libmicrohttpd/libmicrohttpd-0.9.21.tar.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1138/openvas-libraries-5.0.2.tar.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1092/openvas-scanner-3.3.1.tar.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1139/openvas-manager-3.0.2.tar.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1140/openvas-administrator-1.2.1.tar.gz http://wald.intevation.org/frs/download.php/1141/greenbone-security-assistant-3.0.2.tar.gz https://svn.wald.intevation.org/svn/openvas/trunk/tools/openvas-check-setup # decompress everything tar -xzf libmicrohttpd-0.9.21.tar.gz tar -xzf openvas-libraries-5.0.2.tar.gz tar -xzf openvas-scanner-3.3.1.tar.gz tar -xzf openvas-manager-3.0.2.tar.gz tar -xzf openvas-administrator-1.2.1.tar.gz tar -xzf greenbone-security-assistant-3.0.2.tar.gz cd libmicrohttpd-0.9.21 ./configure make make install cd .. cd openvas-libraries-5.0.2 cmake CMakeLists.txt make make install cd .. cd openvas-scanner-3.3.1 cmake CMakeLists.txt make make install cd .. cd openvas-manager-3.0.2 cmake CMakeLists.txt make make install cd .. cd openvas-administrator-1.2.1 cmake CMakeLists.txt make make install cd .. cd greenbone-security-assistant-3.0.2 cmake CMakeLists.txt make make install cd .. chmod 744 openvas-check-setup mv openvas-check-setup .. cd .. rm -rf oi # post-install setup #! /bin/sh openvas-mkcert openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i openvasad -c "add_user" -n username -r Admin openvas-nvt-sync > /dev/null openvassd openvasmd --rebuild # start_openvas.sh #! /bin/sh # note this just starts Greenbone Security Assistant, the web UI /usr/local/sbin/openvassd /usr/local/sbin/openvasmd /usr/local/sbin/openvasad /usr/local/sbin/gsad --http-only --mlisten=127.0.0.1 -m 9390 --alisten=127.0.0.1 -a 9393 On 8/6/12, bb.boogie <[email protected]> wrote: > 32-bit, both KDE and Gnome (so, irrelevant). We have it running fine on > BT5r2, but the disclaimer is that the openvas packages are only openvas 4, > not 5 which was released in May. But it works just great. good luck. > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Whit Blauvelt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:12:30PM -0400, bb.boogie wrote: >> > This tutorial for openvas on backtrack 5 works like a champ every time >> we bring >> > up a new pentest host, by ax0n: >> > >> > http://www.h-i-r.net/2011/08/installing-openvas-on-backtrack-5.html >> >> Thank you much! I'll try that soon. Looks cleaner than the instructions >> on >> BackTrack's site, which somehow led me to trouble. >> >> Has your success been with the 64-bit or 32-bit BackTrack? KDE or Gnome >> (shouldn't matter to run the web version, I know ... unless some library >> conflict is dragged in)? Any reason to use an earlier version than >> BackTrack >> 5 r 2? My not-successful try was with BackTrack 5 r 2, 32-bit, KDE - but >> it >> may well have been the different instructions or my making some mistake >> rather than version stuff that got me stuck. >> >> Whit >> > _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
