How do I install nessus on ubuntu 14.04?

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Download Nessus from here. Choose the Ubuntu packages (or the Debian ones)
Open a Terminal and go to the download directory (cd)
Run sudo dpkg -i Nessus*.deb. Enter root password.
Start it sudo /etc/init.d/nessusd start
Open a browser and go to https://localhost:8834/

See more on Samiux's Blog. Check also: Can't Install Nessus in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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sbergeron

A 15 year old technophile adding humor and knowledge to the term "tech support" (:cough: microsoft :cough:). If I helped you go ahead and vote up my answer, it really does have a sense of euphoria that comes along with it :) As of December 2015, I'm still an active member of AskUbuntu but do not run Ubuntu on my machine (moved on to a different distro) so I can't test much of what I give as advice, and some of it might become fairly antiquated knowing the Linux community :)

Updated on September 18, 2022

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sbergeron almost 2 years

I have tried installing using the other guides, but they either recommend using apt-get (I tried, that doesn't work at all, it can not locate the packages) or using the regular download and just installing it that way. I have tried using the official download, but although the installation using qapt completes successfully, I am unable to launch it or anything else. Basically I want a guide on how to install it, that includes what repos to add, what to install, and how to configure it. Please help me with this, someone recently broke into a couple computers on my home network and I need to find the fix ASAP before they do a (literal) drive by attack again.