Tag Archive for: Armitage a GUI front-end for the Metasploit Framework developed by Raphael Mudge was not preinstalled like in the BackTrack version.

As an avid BackTrack Linux distribution user, I recently started to use the newly released Kali Linux distribution.  Kali Linux is the new generation of the industry-leading BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution.  Some of the tools I normally use as a practitioner, researcher, educator or  hobbyist are OpenVAS vulnerability scanning tool, Metasploit penetration testing software and Autopsy the forensics toolkit to just name a few of the available products.

I noticed almost immediately, Armitage a GUI front-end for the Metasploit Framework developed by Raphael Mudge was not preinstalled like in the BackTrack version.

So here is what I did to install it on my Kali Linux install:

1. Open up a terminal window
2. Issue command cd /etc/apt/
3. Issue command vi sources.list
4. Add the following lines to the list:
   • deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
   • deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
5. Save the file
6. Open another terminal window and issue the following commands
   • apt-get update
   • apt-get install armitage
   • service postgresql start
   • service metasploit start
7. Program is located in /usr/bin/armitage

Good luck and please comment if you had success in the process.