How To Install libopenvas-dev on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenvas-dev
on Debian 10.
What is libopenvas-dev
libopenvas-dev is:
The Open Vulnerability Assessment System is a modular security auditing tool, used for testing remote systems for vulnerabilities that should be fixed.
It is made up of two parts: a server, and a client. The server/daemon, openvasd, is in charge of the attacks, whereas the client, OpenVAS-Client, provides an X11/GTK+ user interface.
This package contains the required static libraries, headers, and libopenvas-config script.
There are three methods to install libopenvas-dev
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libopenvas-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenvas-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopenvas-dev
Install libopenvas-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenvas-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopenvas-dev
Install libopenvas-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libopenvas-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopenvas-dev
How To Uninstall libopenvas-dev on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libopenvas-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopenvas-dev
Uninstall libopenvas-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopenvas-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopenvas-dev
Remove libopenvas-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libopenvas-dev
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopenvas-dev
Remove libopenvas-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopenvas-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopenvas-dev
Dependencies
libopenvas-dev have the following dependencies:
- libgcrypt-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgnutls28-dev
- libgpgme-dev
- libhiredis-dev
- libksba-dev
- libopenvas9
- libpcap-dev
- libssh-dev
- uuid-dev
- libsnmp-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopenvas-dev
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.