Moe Trin wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin, in article
> <xjPEf.2725$ZS3.1885@trndny05>, Jim Anderson wrote:
>
>
>>I'm trying to install Nessus no Fedora Core 3. When I run
>>the rpm for Nessus, I get the following:
>>
>>rpm -i Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386.rpm
>
>
> First problem - that's the wrong version of Fedora. Second, where did
> you get this version?

I'm going to install FC 4 on my machine and then try again.
I got the nessus download from http://www.nessus.com/download


>
>
>>error: Failed dependencies:
>> libcrypto.so.5 is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
>> libdb-4.3.so is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
>> libssl.so.5 is needed by Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386
>>
>>I tried installing on my FC4 machine and got the same
>>error.
>
>
> Try 'rpm -qa' to see what all you have got installed, and compare that
> to 'rpm -R Nessus-3.0.1-fc4.i386.rpm'.
>
>
>>I did some searhing on the web and it looks like
>>I need a later release of openssl.
>
>
> Not impossible - but 'libdb-4.3' is part of the stock db4-4.3.27-3 that
> came with FC4... no, it wasn't errataed up, so that shouldn't be a
> problem. I suspect you have a package that wasn't as carefully set up
> as it should have been.
>
>
>>Do I get openssl and then install it with 'rpm -i ...'
>>and then install Nessus? I tried this but it did not work.
>
>
> did not work... what happened, did the computer catch on fire or something?
> Normally, installing the dependencies first is the cure, but sometimes you
> run into a cross dependency thing, where "A" requires "B" which requires "C"
> which requires "A". In that particular case, the solution is to install all
> at once, and let 'rpm' hash out the dependencies.
>
>
>>Does anyone have any guidance for me?
>
>
> Reason I'm questioning the package is that I don't see it on the list I
> have for "official" packages. Trying to install packages from others may
> cause difficulties.
>
> Old guy