[15:47] <slashtom> oh noes, what's happened to nessus. where is it?
[15:49] <slashtom> it's missing from lucid lynx, this is strange
[15:50] <ebel> slashtom: doesn't look like it's been there for a while
[15:50] <ebel> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=nessus
[15:51] <ebel> hardy (~April 2008) was last release with it (I think!). Though that was the last LTS
[15:51] <czajkowski> all the pixie albums from ubuntuie I have will be moved over to the @ubuntuie ac
[15:51] <slashtom> damn
[15:51] <slashtom> how can you do penetration testing from ubuntu now?
[15:52] <ebel> slashtom: I'm sure you can still install it somehow....
[15:53] <slashtom> but if it's not managed by apt, i may as well be using slackware
[15:54] <slashtom> debian has it, this is strange
[15:54] <czajkowski> is it in the software center?
[15:54] <slashtom> huh?
[15:55] <slashtom> what's the software centre?
[15:55] <czajkowski> where all the software you can install is listed
[15:55] <ebel> slashtom: 'software centre' = a GUI apt programme
[15:55] <czajkowski> so wondering is it there
[15:55] <ebel> slashtom: Though I suspect it still is in ubuntu, since launchpad lists packages for jaunty https://launchpad.net/nessus
[15:56] <ebel> (which is april 2009)
[15:56] <ebel> slashtom: pull down the apt source package for jaunty nessus, then rebuild the package?
[15:56] <slashtom> czajkowski: i only searched the apt-cache
[15:56] <czajkowski> ok
[15:57] <slashtom> i didn't know there was software in a different place
[15:57] <slashtom> ebel: i don't want to maintain the installation for each package manually
[15:57] <ebel> czajkowski, slashtom: you are both talking about the same thing.
[15:58] <slashtom> i will have to find out about alternative ways to penetration test
[15:58] <ebel> "ubuntu software centre" uses apt. apt-cache uses apt. it's all apt. :)
[15:58] <slashtom> grand
[15:58] <slashtom> it would annoy the crap out of me if you were forced to use a GUI for things
[15:58] <ebel> synaptic uses apt, aptitude uses apt, apt-get uses apt. There are many tools to do the same thing, like how Firefox and Chromium can access the same websites.
[15:59] <ebel> slashtom: you could make a PPA for nessus and maintain it yourself? :P
[15:59] <ebel> I can't see if anyone else has done it...
[16:01] <slashtom> too much work
[16:02] <ebel> slashtom: look at BackTrack? an ubuntu derivative (I think) with lots of security stuff
[16:03] <ebel> slashtom: actually looks like nessus might no longer be free software http://askubuntu.com/questions/12434/vulnerability-scanner-nmap-vs-nessus/12459#12459
[16:04] <ebel> slashtom: looks like you have to pay for non-personal use of nessus.
[16:05] <ebel> slashtom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_(software)#History looks like it was un-opened in 2005
[16:06] <ebel> slashtom: looks like the previous open source verion was forked to OpenVAS
[16:06] <ebel> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVAS
[16:06] <ebel> (it was originally called GNessUs :P )
[16:07] <slashtom> deadly, thanks ebel
[16:07] <ebel> you could try that? (it is in apt/software centre/aptitude/apt-get/library of alexandria: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openvas )
[16:08] <slashtom> aye, just installed!
[16:08]  * slashtom likes using apt and doesn't like using things which are not in there
[16:26] <ubuntucork> Greetings to all citizens not yet colonised by The Peoples Republic of Cork. :)
[16:27] <ebel> yo
[18:04] <czajkowski> ubuntucork: aloha
[20:39] <dax_roc> Evening all