Obtaining, Compiling, Installing, and Removing Nmap

Table of Contents

Introduction

Testing Whether Nmap is Already Installed

Command-line and Graphical Interfaces

Downloading Nmap

Verifying the Integrity of Nmap Downloads

Obtaining Nmap from the Subversion (SVN) Repository

Unix Compilation and Installation from Source Code

Configure Directives

If You Encounter Compilation Problems

Linux Distributions

RPM-based Distributions (Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Fedora)

Updating Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, and Yellow Dog Linux with Yum

Debian Linux and Derivatives such as Ubuntu

Other Linux Distributions

Windows

Windows Self-installer

Command-line Zip Binaries

Installing the Nmap zip binaries

Compile from Source Code

Executing Nmap on Windows

Sun Solaris

Apple Mac OS X

Executable Installer

Compile from Source Code

Compile Nmap from source code

Compile Zenmap from source code

Third-party Packages

Executing Nmap on Mac OS X

FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD

OpenBSD Binary Packages and Source Ports Instructions

FreeBSD Binary Package and Source Ports Instructions

Installation of the binary package

Installation using the source ports tree

NetBSD Binary Package Instructions

Amiga, HP-UX, IRIX, and Other Platforms

Removing Nmap