[CentOS] Nessus Installation Failure

Craig White
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:08:57 -0000

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:04 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote:
> I'm trying to get get nessus 2.2.5 to install on my centos 3.5 system.
> It errors out with this error:
>
> Press ENTER to continue
>
> x - Compiling the libraries
> x -- Configuring the sources for your system
> configure: error: Could not find OpenSSL and OpenSSL headers on your system
> **** An error occured :/
> Do you want to save the compilation log to analyze what went wrong ? [y]
> Where should I save this file ? [/root/nessus_compilation]
> Do you want to delete /tmp/nessus-installer.11739 ? [y]
>
>
> rpm -qv openssl shows:
>
> [root at asskicker em]# rpm -qv openssl
> openssl-0.9.7a-33.15
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong or what I need to
> change to get this package to install?
>
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seems like you need openssl-devel

Craig