How do I install the latest version of nmap from source on Ubuntu?
Solution 1
I am not that familiar with nmap
but I built the very latest version from source reasonably easily under Xenial Xerus with a few easy steps.
Step 1:
First activate the Software Sources:
Dash > Software & Updates > Ubuntu Software > Downloadable from The Internet > Source Code
and allow the Repositories to reload.
Step 2:
Then install the build dependencies as well as checkinstall
:
sudo apt-get build-dep nmap
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
Step 3:
Then run the following single command to download, compile and install the latest nmap
:
mkdir $HOME/Desktop/nmap_build && cd $HOME/Desktop/nmap_build && \
wget https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.31.tar.bz2 && tar xavf nmap-7.31.tar.bz2 && \
cd nmap-7.31 && \
./configure && make && \
sudo checkinstall --pakdir "$HOME/Desktop/nmap_build" \
--backup=no --deldoc=yes --pkgname nmap --pkgversion 7.31 \
--fstrans=no --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default
Step 4:
On my system this shows:
andrew@athens:~$ nmap --version
Nmap version 7.31 ( https://nmap.org )
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.3.3 openssl-1.0.2g libpcre-8.38
libpcap-1.7.4 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6
Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: epoll poll select
andrew@athens:~$
Hopefully this will also work well on your system :).
Solution 2
The configure
script is asking for the location of the OpenSSL library headers and *.so
files, not the openssl
executable. On Ubuntu/Debian systems, you can install these headers by installing the libssl-dev
package. If you install it this way, you do not have to provide the location to the configure script; it will find it on its own.
As another user pointed out, you can also run apt-get build-dep nmap
to install all the prerequisites for building the nmap
package, but this might be more than you want. Both will work.
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Kiran
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Kiran almost 2 years
I am running Ubuntu 16.04, and I am trying to install the latest nmap. I have a C compiler installed.
I ran
openssl version
and found that this version was installed: OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016I downloaded nmap 7.31 as a .bz2 file. I decompressed it. I ran the ./configure utility like this:
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl
I received this message:
... configure: error: Your version of OpenSSL does not support SHA-256. Please install OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. configure: error: ./configure failed for nping
I ran
whereis openssl
and the result of the command confirmed my location was correct. If I run ./configure by itself, I get a warning about compiling nmap without openssl.WARNING: You are compiling without OpenSSL
I try to use
make
afterward that and getmake The program 'make' can be found in the following packages: * make * make-guile Try: apt install <selected package>
If I try apt install, I get the local network nmap installation. I do not want that. I tried gmake, but I got this
No command 'gmake' found.
How do I install the latest nmap utility? I cannot run ./configure with the explicit designation of the OpenSSL location. I cannot run make after a normal "./configure" run.
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steeldriver over 7 yearsYou probably just need to install the
build-essential
andlibssl-dev
packages and then./configure
without setting an explicit--with-openssl
path (which is likely not a binary path anyhow)
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