metasploit

UPDATED: Installing Metasploit on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

Metasploit is another one of those best of breed applications found in many computer security experts' tool shed. Metasploit.com has instructions for installing Metasploit on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Debian Linux on their website (http://trac.metasploit.com/wiki/Metasploit3/InstallUbuntu). I find that there are a lot of forums trying to get through the vague instructions.

Here are my steps for getting metasploit installed on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. Even the GUI works, which seems to be one of the biggest challenges.

First, install all the dependencies, Ruby on Rails and subversion.

sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby libruby rdoc libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby libiconv-ruby libgtk2-ruby libglade2-ruby subversion sqlite3 libsqlite3-ruby irb