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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.

ClosedRed Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux

# rpm -Uvh Nessus-<version number>-es6.i386.rpm

ClosedSUSE version 11

# rpm -Uvh Nessus-<version number>-suse11.i586.rpm

ClosedFedora version 20

# rpm -Uvh Nessus-<version number>-fc20.x86_64.rpm

ClosedUbuntu version 910

# dpkg -i Nessus-<version number>-ubuntu910_i386.deb

Start the Nessus Daemon

From a command prompt, restart the nessusd daemon.

ClosedRed Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, SUSE, FreeBSD

# service nessusd start

ClosedDebian/Kali and Ubuntu

# /etc/init.d/nessusd start

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

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