How To Install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7.
What is openvas-gsa
The Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) is a lean web service offering a user web interface for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS). The GSA uses XSL transformation style-sheets that converts OMP responses from the OpenVAS infrastructure into presentable HTML.
We can use yum or dnf to install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openvas-gsa.
Install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install openvas-gsa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install openvas-gsa
Install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install openvas-gsa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install openvas-gsa
How To Uninstall openvas-gsa on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the openvas-gsa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove openvas-gsa
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openvas-gsa on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.