How to install Nmap 6 on Ubuntu 12.04
Fyodor and the Nmap crew today have released the version 6 of the famous Network Mapper. This major release brings 600 significant improvements (see http://nmap.org/6/#changes), the top 6 are:
Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) – 352 scripts!
Better Web Scanning
Full IPv6 Support
New Nping Tool
Better Zenmap GUI & results viewer
Faster scans
To install the latest Nmap on Ubuntu 12.04 please follow this steps, please note that I’m using Checkinstall to build the .deb package. Using CheckInstall will give an easy way to install or remove the files from the file system.
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apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.00.tar.bz2
bzip2 -cd nmap-6.00.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
cd nmap-6.00
./configure
make
checkinstall
dpkg -i nmap_6.00-1_i386.deb
To try nmap.
nmap -A scanme.nmap.org
