NMAP 4.00 for Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy)

Posted 2 years, 8 months ago at 8:30 pm. 0 comments

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