Enabling Nessus on BackTrack 5 - The Official Guide

[promark]

As I couldn't post in the how to section will have to be here

A guide for enabling Nessus on BT 5 written by Tenable so no credit to me thought it may help someone

http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2011...ial-guide.html

[lund99]

the link to /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch is broken in my install of BT5 R1 GNOME 32 VM - does this apply to all the BT5R1 images?

[clone]

try /usr/local/bin/nessus-fetch and then appending your activation key.

[scottm99]

Thanks for the link

[VulpiArgenti]

the link to /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch is broken in my install of BT5 R1 GNOME 32 VM - does this apply to all the BT5R1 images?

Hope I'm not stating the obvious: to "activate" the broken link, you first have to install nessus from the repo. Then as Clone says, /usr/local/bin/nessus-fetch --register [key] should work.

[scottm99]

Follow up...I had the same trouble as lund99. Seems that the BT5r1 32-bit gnome virtual machine version doesn't have a complete install of Nessus. I can see the symbolic links in /usr/local/bin, but they don't work because the /opt/nessus/bin directory is missing. Not really a big deal, you just have to download & install Nessus.

[clone]

you just have to download & install Nessus.

i'm sorry for omitting this. i had originally posted a much longer winded walk-through to it but edited it for brevity, and just gave the location upon direct installation for fetch --register.

my bad

[scottm99]

Not a problem This helped me get some practice installing software into BackTrack. I downloaded the Nessus-4.4.1-ubuntu1010_i386.deb package, and used dpkg to install. Kind of an aside...anyone tried to apt-get install nessus?

[batuoc931323]

I really don't know how to update Nessus on BackTrack 5!.