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[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Are you tunning the nessus-installer script as root?

You might also wish to pull down the nessus tarballs and do a command line 
installation (you can specify it to be built without the GUI).


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Cheryl Lytle wrote:

> When I try to install nessus, I am getting this message:
> 
> sh nessus-installer.sh
> The command 'gtk-config' was not found in your $PATH.
> The nessus client will be built without its GUI...
> 
> so I hit enter to continue and it continues and I get this:
> 
> x -- Compiling
> libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
> make[1]: *** [libpcap-nessus.la] Error 1
> make: [pcap-make] Error 2 (ignored)
> popen.c: In function `nessus_popen':
> popen.c:111: warning: passing arg 2 of `execvp' from incompatible
> pointer type
> libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
> make[1]: *** [libnessus.la] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> **** An error occured :/
> Do you want to save the compilation log to analyze what went wrong ? [y]
> 
> 
> I tried to save a log file, but I am not finding it.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> 

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