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Unable to install OpenVas in Ubuntu 12.04

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While installing OpenVAS vulnerability assessment suite from the software center I am getting the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:



openvas: Depends: openvas-libraries but it is not going to be installed

         Depends: greenbone-security-desktop but it is not going to be installed

What might be the problem? What should I do install it?

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answered 2 Years ago utschang · Accepted Answer

Ok, seems that you are trying to install a virtual packages that is confusing apt. Also, you must make sure that you have the universe repository is activated:

$ grep universe /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl/ubuntu/ precise main universe

The first command should return you something like that, if it don't you should add the repository.

sudo apt-add-repository "deb $(grep main /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -m1 http | gawk -F ' ' '{print $2}') universe"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Once this is done, if you want the client:

sudo apt-get install openvas-client=2.0.3-4

This has no problem whatsoever in the packages page.

But if what you want is the server:

sudo apt-get install openvas-server=2.0.3-4

Again, this has no problem whatsoever in the packages page.