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diff --git a/network/openvas-client/README b/network/openvas-client/README deleted file mode 100644 index d3b6c331f4..0000000000 --- a/network/openvas-client/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network -security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The -core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) -to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. - -OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus. - -This package provides the OpenVAS scanner. To build a complete OpenVAS scanner -installation, however, you have to compile and install the packages in the -following sequence: - 1. openvas-libraries - 2. openvas-scanner - 3. openvas-client - -The openvas-client GUI is needed to interact with the OpenVAS scanner, however -there are some new optional modules: - 1. openvas-manager for storing and organizing scans on a central server in a - SQL database - 2. openvas-administrator for User-, Feed- and Settings-Management - 3. greenbone-security-assistant for a web-based Vulnerability Management - -This package provides the OpenVAS client. You need GTK libraries and -OpenSSL are highly recommended, both of them are avalaible from Slackware. - -As a last note, keep in mind that this is a major version transition: the -older openvas-libnasl and openvas-plugins packages no longer exists, -openvas-server has been replaced by the openvas-scanner package and there are -the new optional modules. A straight upgradepkg (with removal of deprecated -packages) *SHOULD* work but also consider to backup your old configuration and -starting over from a fresh OpenVAS installation. |