Installing Metasploit 4.0.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Installing metasploit is quite easy. I have documented the installation instructions that I used below, however its just as simple to follow the more comprehensive instructions from the Rapid7/Metasploit site[1] (https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-1296).

1. sudo apt-get install -y ruby libopenssl-ruby libyaml-ruby libdl-ruby libiconv-ruby libreadline-ruby irb ri rubygems
2. wget http://updates.metasploit.com/data/releases/framework-4.0.0.tar.bz2
3. sudo mkdir /opt/metasploit4
4. sudo bunzip framework-4.0.0.tar.bz2
5. sudo tar xvf framework-4.0.0.tar
6. sudo mv msf3 /opt/metasploit4
7. sudo chown -R root:root /opt/metasploit4/msf3
8. sudo ln -s /opt/metasploit4/msf3/msf* /usr/local/bin
9. cd /opt/metasploit4/msf3
10. sudo svn update
11. sudo crontab -e -u root # Enter "1 * * * * * /usr/bin/svn update  /opt/metasploit4/msf3/ >> /var/log/msf3update.log 2>&1"
12. sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server
13. sudo apt-get install -y rubygems libmysqlclient-dev
14. sudo apt-get install -y ruby-dev
15. sudo gem install mysql

References:

1. https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-1296