[CentOS] Install OpenVAS on CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)

Wed Aug 12 04:34:41 UTC 2020
Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com>

On 8/11/20 11:35 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:24 PM Ralf Prengel <ralf.prengel at rprengel.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hallo,
>> not direkt a solution but I m using a kali rolling release installation on
>> hard disk.
>> Works fine here.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
> Hi,
> 
> I am facing the below mentioned issue.
> 
> #wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
> [root at openvas8 ~]# yum -y install openvas
> Last metadata expiration check: 1:40:48 ago on Tue 11 Aug 2020 11:53:08 AM
> EDT.
> Error:
>   Problem: conflicting requests
>    - package greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9461.el8.art.noarch
> requires openvas-manager, but none of the providers can be installed
>    - package gvm-11.0.0-14318.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the
> providers can be installed
>    - package gvm-11.0.0-14324.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the
> providers can be installed
>    - package gvm-11.0.0-14325.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the
> providers can be installed
>    - package gvm-11.0.0-14327.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the
> providers can be installed
>    - package gvm-11.0.0-14328.el8.art.noarch requires gvmd, but none of the
> providers can be installed
>    - nothing provides alien needed by
> greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
>    - nothing provides dirb needed by
> greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
>    - nothing provides nikto needed by
> greenbone-vulnerability-manager-11.0.0-9458.el8.art.noarch
>    - nothing provides perl-XML-Twig needed by gvmd-9.0.1-14218.el8.art.x86_64
>    - nothing provides perl-XML-Twig needed by gvmd-9.0.1-14220.el8.art.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
> use not only best candidate packages)
> [root at openvas8 ~]#

perl-XML-Twig at least is in the PowerTools repo, which is disabled by 
default.  nikto and dirb look to be harder to come by.




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