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NMAP 4.00 for Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)

NMAP and Nessus on my laptop are my best friends for keeping my Windows boxes at work secure. Nmap is the quickest way to search a subnet for any unusual open ports.The version of Nmap that comes with Breezy is a little old, and also uses gtk1 (bleech). Another problem is that the menu icon does not launch nmap as a sudo privilege app, therefore nmap does not allow all its features to work. Here are instructions for installing my NMAP 4.00 .deb files, with gtk2 and fixed menu icon.

Changes 2/1/2006:

• Built from source from http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
• Added my copy of source.

1. Get files:

wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/nmap_4.00-1~dmb_i386.deb

wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/nmapfe_4.00-1~dmb_i386.deb

wget -c http://mikesplanet.net/deb/nmap-logo-64.png

2. Install Extra Libraries:

sudo apt-get install libpcre3

3. Install Files:

sudo dpkg -i nmap_4.00-1~dmb_i386.deb nmapfe_4.00-1~dmb_i386.deb

4. Copy Icon Pixmap:

sudo cp nmap-logo-64.png /usr/share/pixmaps

5. Restart Gnome Panel:

killall gnome-panel

The source can be found here:
http://mikesplanet.net/deb/nmap-4.00~dmb.tar.gz