Hi,

I am running Kali Linux 2020.3. Is there a way to setup OpenVAS GUI to find out Vulnerability on a remote Linux server? I do not see an openvas-setup tool on Kali Linux 2020.3. I am just seeing openvas, openvas-9-migrate-to-postgres, openvas-nasl, openvas-nasl-lint and openvt tool


PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2020.3"
VERSION_ID="2020.3"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"


I am referring to https://www.kali.org/penetration-tes...lity-scanning/ to install OpenVAS


root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.harukasan.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_IN:en",
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2",
LANG = "en_IN"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_IN").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up tex-common (6.15) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.2XilDZwz
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin# apt-get install openvas
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'gvm' instead of 'openvas'
gvm is already the newest version (11.0.2~kali3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_IN:en",
LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
LC_TERMINAL = "iTerm2",
LANG = "en_IN"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_IN").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up tex-common (6.15) ...
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.
Building format(s) --all.
This may take some time...
fmtutil failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.h3RWqLV8
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing package tex-common (--configure):
installed tex-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
tex-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin# openvas-setup
bash: openvas-setup: command not found
root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin# find / -iname openvas-setup
root@kalilinux:/home/vaptadmin#

I have pasted the output of cat /tmp/fmtutil.h3RWqLV8 in http://sprunge.us/80XG5S

Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in Advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal