6 thoughts on - Install OpenVAS On CentOS Linux Release 8.2.2004 (Core)

• Hallo, not direkt a solution but I m using a kali rolling release installation on hard disk. Works fine here.

  Ralf

• Hi,

  I am facing the below mentioned issue.

  #wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
  [root@openvas8 ~]# yum -y install openvas Last metadata expiration check: 1:40:48 ago on Tue 11 Aug 2020 11:53:08 AM
  EDT. Error:
  Problem: conflicting requests
  – package greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9461.el8.art.noarch requires openvas-manager, but none of the providers can be installed
  – package gvm-11.0.0-14318.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the providers can be installed
  – package gvm-11.0.0-14324.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the providers can be installed
  – package gvm-11.0.0-14325.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the providers can be installed
  – package gvm-11.0.0-14327.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the providers can be installed
  – package gvm-11.0.0-14328.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the providers can be installed
  – nothing provides alien needed by greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
  – nothing provides dirb needed by greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
  – nothing provides nikto needed by greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
  – nothing provides perl-XML-Twig needed by gvmd-9.0.1-14218.el8.art.x86_64
  – nothing provides perl-XML-Twig needed by gvmd-9.0.1-14220.el8.art.x86_64
  (try to add ‘–skip-broken’ to skip uninstallable packages or ‘–nobest’ to use not only best candidate packages)
  [root@openvas8 ~]#

  Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

  Best Regards,

  Kaushal

• perl-XML-Twig at least is in the PowerTools repo, which is disabled by default. nikto and dirb look to be harder to come by.

• Le 11/08/2020 à 17:42, Kaushal Shriyan a écrit :

  For what it’s worth, here’s my archived blog article about installing OpenVAS
  on CentOS 7:

  https://oldblog.microlinux.fr/openvas-CentOS-epel/

  As far as I can tell, installing OpenVAS with Docker is the easiest way nowadays.

  Cheers,

  Niki

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• Thanks Niki for the email and much appreciated. I will go through it and get in touch if I encounter any issues. Thanks in Advance

  Best Regards,

  Kaushal

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• Hi Niki,

  I am running CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core) and have followed https://oldblog.microlinux.fr/openvas-CentOS-epel/
  I am encountering errors and the details are as below:-

  Error: md5sums not correct. Your NVT collection might be broken now.

  #openvas-nvt-sync

  Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you.

  Best Regards,

  Kaushal