OpenVAS for CentOS via Atomic
 | Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository |
Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)
yum upgrade yum install openvas openvas-setup
Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )
Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2
Open https://localhost:9392/.
OpenVAS for Debian via OBS
 | Setup and start OpenVAS openSUSE Build Service (OBS) |
Step 1: Configure OBS Repository
(as user root, only once)
echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/Debian_7.0/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/Debian_7.0/Release.key apt-key add ./Release.key sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)
apt-get -y install greenbone-security-assistant openvas-cli openvas-manager openvas-scanner openvas-administrator sqlite3 xsltproc rsync
To install support packages for report generation (downloads around 30 MB of additional packages):
apt-get -y install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended htmldoc
To install support for autogenerated LSC credential packages:
apt-get -y install alien rpm nsis fakeroot
Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
(copy and paste whole block as user root,
during first time you will be asked to set
a password for user "admin")
test -e /var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem || openvas-mkcert -q openvas-nvt-sync test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/om || openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i /etc/init.d/openvas-manager stop /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner stop openvassd openvasmd --rebuild openvas-scapdata-sync openvas-certdata-sync test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/admin || openvasad -c add_user -n admin -r Admin killall openvassd sleep 15 /etc/init.d/openvas-scanner start /etc/init.d/openvas-manager start /etc/init.d/openvas-administrator restart /etc/init.d/greenbone-security-assistant restart
Step 4: Log into OpenVAS as "admin"
Open https://localhost:9392/.
OpenVAS for Fedora via Atomic
 | Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository |
Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)
yum install openvas openvas-setup
Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )
Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2
Open https://localhost:9392/.
OpenVAS for openSUSE via OBS
 | Setup and start OpenVAS openSUSE Build Service (OBS) |
Step 1: Configure OBS Repository
(as user root, only once, you can replace "12.3" with other release names)
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/openSUSE_12.3/ openvas
Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)
zypper ref && zypper in -t pattern openvas
Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
(as user root, only once,
during first time you will be asked to set
a password for user "admin")
openvas-setup
Step 4: Log into OpenVAS as "admin"
Open https://localhost:9392/.
OpenVAS for RedHat via Atomic
 | Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository |
Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)
yum install openvas openvas-setup
Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )
Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2
Open https://localhost:9392/.
OpenVAS for Windows via Greenbone
 | Greenbone maintains a Windows binary of the OMP command line tool for download:OMP Remote Control. |
openSUSE Build Service (OBS)
With the openSUSE Build Service, packages are currently build for the following distributions:
Packages can be downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/.