Installing Metasploit Framework in Inrepid Ibex-Tutorial

First we have to get subversion and build essential;

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion

Now we need the Ruby requirements for Metasploit:

sudo apt-get install libruby rdoc libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby libiconv-ruby rubygems sqlite3 libsqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-dev

Next, Ibex comes with a non-compatible default ruby install (Version 1.8.7) so you can get it from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2 or use the following to do so automatically from the shell using wget:

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2

Now we remove our previously installed Ruby package:

sudo apt-get remove ruby

Then we extract, configure, make, and install our new version:

    #tar -jvxf ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2

    #cd ruby-1.8.6-p111

    #./configure

    #make

    #sudo make install

Now to install metasploit:

svn co http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/ metasploit-svn

to check it out we will cd into the msf-svn directory and run the console!

cd metasploit-svn

      ./msfconsole

And that should bring up your console-from here on out rely on metasploits documentation for usage!

HI. I've found your post quite useful, but even though i followed your steps down to the letter, i can't get metasploit to work. whenever i try to run any of the interfaces i get errors. For msfconsole and msfgui i get

smv@max1:~/metasploit-svn$ ./msfgui /home/smv/metasploit-svn/lib/rex/text.rb:1:in require': no such file to load -- digest/md5 (LoadError) from /home/smv/metasploit-svn/lib/rex/text.rb:1 from /home/smv/metasploit-svn/lib/rex.rb:44:in require' from /home/smv/metasploit-svn/lib/rex.rb:44 from ./msfgui:14:in `require' from ./msfgui:14

And for msfweb i get

smv@max1:~/metasploit-svn$ ./msfweb ./lib/rex/text.rb:1:in require': no such file to load -- digest/md5 (LoadError) from ./lib/rex/text.rb:1 from ./lib/rex.rb:44:in require' from ./lib/rex.rb:44 from ./lib/msf/core.rb:16:in require' from ./lib/msf/core.rb:16 from ./lib/msf/base.rb:19:in require' from ./lib/msf/base.rb:19 from ./msfweb:15:in `require' from ./msfweb:15

Any clues as to what this messages mean? I can't really understand what they mean. thanx

I have metasploit installed in hardy heron and to have msfgui interface to work i had to also install the following packages libglade2-ruby and libgtk2-ruby. I hope this helps.

I installed everything as per the stesp, and I also installed

apt-get install libgtk2-ruby libglade2-ruby

but msfconsole starts with some errors about loading modules:

root@r00t3r:/home/aditya/metasploit-svn# ./msfconsole

• WARNING! The following modules could not be loaded!

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/auxiliary/scanner/telephony/wardial.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_jbig2decode.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/auxiliary/pdf/foxit/authbypass.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/browser/adobe_jbig2decode.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_geticon.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_utilprintf.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/browser/adobe_geticon.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_collectemailinfo.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

/home/aditya/metasploit-svn/modules/exploits/windows/browser/adobe_utilprintf.rb: LoadError (eval):9:in `require': no such file to load -- zlib

I forgot to mention .. msfweb and msfgui didnt run because of errors. Now I managed to install ruby properly. I will write the steps. However my msfgui is still not running. I resinstalled gtk but ultimately it gave me this error:

root@r00t3r:/home/aditya/pentest/metasploit# ./msfgui
[*] The msfgui interface requires the ruby-gtk2 and ruby-libglade2 packages
[*] Dependencies include ruby-pango, ruby-glib2, ruby-gdkpixbuf2, and ruby-atk
[-] Error: LoadError /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/gtk2.so: undefined symbol: rbgobj_id_children - /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/gtk2.so
root@r00t3r:/home/aditya/pentest/metasploit# 

No clue on this.

I will explain the way I installed everything.

1. First install the mentioned packages thru apt-get.

apt-get install ruby libruby rdoc libgtk2-ruby libglade2-ruby libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby libiconv-ruby sqlite3 libsqlite3-ruby irb

Dont install rubygems from apt-get.

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/55372/ruby-1.8.7-p160.tar.gz

http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/55066/rubygems-1.3.2.tgz

1. Then install ruby from source
2. THen install rubygem from source
3. then using gem, install rails.

gem install rails

rails testapp

In it, run

./script/server

1. Finally get msf through svn

In the 5th step while running msfconsole I got the zlib errors: This is what I did for the zlib errors. Also whenever I used gem, it gave me one of zlib errors:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require’: no such file to load — zlib (LoadError)

http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/zlib-Download-159.html

Btw, I got the clue after reading this page: [URL="http://bluescripts.net/2009/03/ruby-ruby-on-rails/"] http://bluescripts.net/2009/03/ruby-ruby-on-rails/[/URL]

So, after resolving zlib, it gave me an openssl error in step 5 :

`require_frameworks': no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError)

ruby extconf.rb 

THough Openssl was installed still I didnt have any source files anywhere . So I installed the development package for openssl.

apt-get install libssl-dev

make clean
./configure
make
make install

ruby setup.rb

Install rails.

gem install rails

rails testapp
cd testapp
./script/server

In case you see errors like this:

root@r00t3r:/home/aditya/pentest/metasploit# ./msfgui
[*] The msfgui interface requires the ruby-gtk2 and ruby-libglade2 packages
[*] Dependencies include ruby-pango, ruby-glib2, ruby-gdkpixbuf2, and ruby-atk
[-] Error: LoadError libruby1.8.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/gtk2.so

You can check the libraries being used by ldd. I just found that I had accidentally removed one file.

ldd gtk2.so
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb8031000)
    libruby1.8.so.1.8 => not found

If some library is not found, that sure is a bad indication.

theravenproject said: first we have to get subversion and build essential;

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion

now we need the ruby requirements for metasploit:

sudo apt-get install libruby rdoc libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby libdl-ruby libreadline-ruby libiconv-ruby rubygems sqlite3 libsqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-dev

next, ibex comes with a non-compatible default ruby install (version 1.8.7) so you can get it from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2 or use the following to do so automatically from the shell using wget:

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2

now we remove our previously installed ruby package:

sudo apt-get remove ruby

then we extract, configure, make, and install our new version:

    #tar -jvxf ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2

    #cd ruby-1.8.6-p111

    #./configure

    #make

    #sudo make install

now to install metasploit:

svn co http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/ metasploit-svn

to check it out we will cd into the msf-svn directory and run the console!

cd metasploit-svn

      ./msfconsole

and that should bring up your console-from here on out rely on metasploits documentation for usage!:ks