Upgrade Nessus on Linux

Download Nessus

From the Tenable Downloads Page, download the latest, full-license version of Nessus.

Use Commands to Upgrade Nessus

From a command prompt, run the Nessus upgrade command.

Note: Nessus automatically stops nessusd when you run the upgrade command.

# yum upgrade Nessus-<version number and OS>.rpm

# dnf upgrade Nessus-<version number and OS>.rpm

# dpkg -i Nessus-<version number and OS>.deb

Start the Nessus Daemon

From a command prompt, restart the nessusd daemon.

# service nessusd start

# /etc/init.d/nessusd start

This completes the process of upgrading Nessus on a Linux operating system.