Comments on How to Install and Use GVM Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 20.04

GVM also called "Greenbone Vulnerability Management" is an open-source vulnerability scanning and management software that provides a set of network vulnerability tests to find security holes in systems and applications.

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By: josh

Very nice guide. Thank you

By: ustoopia

Will this system also be able to scan other machines? Or is it just for scanning the localhost?

By: Tobe

Great tutorial, thanks for that.I wan't add / correct two points which not worked for me:1. Installation process for yarn changed a bit. First I had to install npm and then install yarn with it:apt-get install npmnpm install -g yarnmkdir /opt/gvmcd /opt/gvm/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn set version berry/usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn set version latest2. There's a wrong path to the ospd.sock in the last command in the how to (Now, modify the default scanner using the above UUID). It should be gvmd --modify-scanner=08b69003-5fc2-4037-a479-93b440211c73 --scanner-host=/opt/gvm/var/run/ospd.sock

By: cesare

Hi, thank you.

But I'm stuck on the yarn installation.

This line is not working for me:

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add - echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

It says:

Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal) gpg: can't open 'echo': File o directory non esistente gpg: can't open 'deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main': File o directory non esistente

Could you tell me exacly write how to install it?I've read on Tobe comment I need to:- apt-get install npmnpm

I would appreciate to know exacly what to do (sorry but I'm not an exper Ubuntu user...)

Thanks,Cesare

By: Tobe

Sorry, my formatting got lost.

Apt-get install npm

npm install -g yarn

mkdir /opt/gvm

cd /opt/gvm

yarn set version berry

yarn set version latest

If you get an error about the node version do the following:

sudo npm cache clean -f

sudo npm install -g n

sudo n 14.2

yarn set version latest

An very important: Do not install PostgreSQL 12, but rather 11. It is a known issue, that GVM is very slow with PostgreSQL 12. That's the reason I'm reinstalling it at the moment.

By: Anold

Is there any way to scan other computers that is in a different network environment? Thank you!

By: ustoopia

After using the commands: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gvm .. make It stops with errors. [code][ 91%] Built target samba-static [ 91%] Built target bin2c [ 91%] Linking C executable winexe /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lunistring /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lunistring clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make[2]: *** [winexe/CMakeFiles/winexe.dir/build.make:140: winexe/winexe] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:194: winexe/CMakeFiles/winexe.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:152: all] Error 2[/code]

By: rey

Got same error

By: leonardo

Hi, this installation include a openvas-cli, if not, how can i include it

By: rey

Resolved: Issue making openvas-smb, cannot find -lunistring - Greenbone Source Edition (GSE) - Greenbone Community Portal

By: Sivaji Karuppusami

Thanks very much for this procedure. I managed to follow until the step Install openvas-smb.

In that section, when I enter the command "mmake install2 it throws the error below. Can you please advise.

gvm@xxxxx-openvas:/opt/gvm/src/gvm-libs/build$ make install

[ 39%] Built target gvm_base_shared

[ 58%] Built target gvm_boreas_shared

[ 90%] Built target gvm_util_shared

[ 95%] Built target gvm_osp_shared

[100%] Built target gvm_gmp_shared

Install the project...

-- Install configuration: "Debug"

-- Installing: /run/gvm

CMake Error at base/cmake_install.cmake:49 (file):

file INSTALL cannot make directory "/run/gvm": Permission denied.

Call Stack (most recent call first):

cmake_install.cmake:42 (include)

make: *** [Makefile:108: install] Error 1

gvm@xxxxx-openvas:/opt/gvm/src/gvm-libs/build$

By: Magda

Hi Sivaji, I ran into the same problem. Were you able to fix it? I would appreciate any help here. Cheers!

By: LLee

Hi,

I ran into an issue and hope you can help. I am not familiar how to download from git.

gvm@vul-scanner:/opt/gvm/src$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gvm/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

gvm@vul-scanner:/opt/gvm/src$ git clone -b gvm-libs-20.08 --single-branch https://github.com/greenbone/gvm-libs.git

Cloning into 'gvm-libs'...

warning: Could not find remote branch gvm-libs-20.08 to clone.

fatal: Remote branch gvm-libs-20.08 not found in upstream origin

Thanks for your help

By: Vladimir

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