Installing Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu-based system

Metasploit Install

Install Prerequisites

sudo apt install build-essential libreadline-dev libssl-dev libpq5 libpq-dev libreadline5 libsqlite3-dev libpcap-dev openjdk-8-jre git-core autoconf postgresql pgadmin3 curl zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev vncviewer libyaml-dev curl zlib1g-dev, ruby-dev

Clone Metasploit

Clone repo

$ cd /opt
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework.git
$ sudo chown -R `whoami` /opt/metasploit-framework

Set up symlinks

sudo bash -c 'for MSF in $(ls msf*); do ln -s /opt/metasploit-framework/$MSF /usr/local/bin/$MSF;done'

Install RVM

Get the signing key

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Get RVM

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Configure terminal to use RVM's version of Ruby

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc
cd /opt/metasploit-framework
rvm --install .ruby-version

Install Bundler

gem install bundler

Install Bundled Gems

$ cd /opt/metasploit-framework
$ bundle install

Configure Postgre SQL

$ sudo -s
$ su postgres
$ createuser msf -P -S -R -D
$ <password>
$ createdb -O msf msf
$ exit
$ exit

Configure Metasploit

sudo nano /opt/metasploit-framework/config/database.yml.example

# Add the following
production:
 adapter: postgresql
 database: msf
 username: msf
 password: <password>
 host: 127.0.0.1
 port: 5432
 pool: 75
 timeout: 5

References

Setting Up a Metasploit Development Environment - https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/wiki/Setting-Up-a-Metasploit-Development-Environment
Installing Metasploit in Ubuntu - http://www.darkoperator.com/installing-metasploit-in-ubunt/

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