Hi All,

Im having some difficulties installing nessus on one of my Mandrake boxes.

The box is running Mandrake 9.1, ive tried all three installation methods on the nessus site.

I have all the devleopment libraries avaliable on the mandrake discs fully installed.

When trying to ./configure the nessus-libraries from source tarball, the process seems to go into a never ending loop just doing it over an over again.

The same happens when trying to use the lynx command

When downlading the installation script and trynig to run that, it just freezes on x --compiling stage.

Did you check which GCC version you need to compile Nessus? I thought that I read somwhere that some programs will not compile with version 3.0. You might want to install version 2.95 (?) and try to compile it again. Also you might want to post the error message that you get.

Ok the gcc version is 3.2.2 so i could try downgrading, however i have just done a fresh install of mandrake on a different machine.

I am now trying to do a manual installation from source, i am getting the following output whn trying to install the libnasl package.

[root@localhost libnasl]# make
cd nasl && make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/msi/libnasl/nasl'
/bin/sh /home/msi/libnasl/libtool --silent gcc -pipe -g -O2 `sh ./cflags` -c nasl_packet_forgery.c
In file included from nasl_packet_forgery.c:30:
../include/includes.h:217:18: pcap.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../include/includes.h:218,
from nasl_packet_forgery.c:30:
/usr/local/include/nessus/libnessus.h:325:18: pcap.h: No such file or directory
nasl_packet_forgery.c: In function `nasl_pcap_next':
nasl_packet_forgery.c:1359: `PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
nasl_packet_forgery.c:1359: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
nasl_packet_forgery.c:1359: for each function it appears in.)
nasl_packet_forgery.c:1368: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
nasl_packet_forgery.c:1359: storage size of `errbuf' isn't known
make[1]: *** [nasl_packet_forgery.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/msi/libnasl/nasl'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I dont get it

Sorry, there is me panicing - a new version of bison has done the trick


Were all new once!!!

LoL