Greenbone upgrade in Kali Linux 2020.2

Kali Linux is only shipping the end-of-life and unsupported OpenVAS/GVM-9 so you can’t use apt-get install to install GVM-11 (the latest and current recommended stable version of GVM).

If you want to use a more recent version and supported version of GVM on Kali Linux you need to uninstall all Kali packages and build GVM-11 from source.

More info about the current stable GVM-11 and where to get it is available at:

https://community.greenbone.net/t/gvm-11-stable-initial-release-2019-10-14

There are also some 3rdparty installation guides like e.g.

https://sadsloth.net/post/install-gvm11-src_part1/
https://sadsloth.net/post/install-gvm11-src-on-debian/

which might be applicable on Kali Linux as well.

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