I’m trying to install openvas-nasl on Kali Linux to test a single NVT. Does this tool go by a different name or was it discontinued?
Both apt search openvas-nasl and apt search gvm-nasl find no packages.
openvas-nasl still exists/is named like this in the sources of openvas-scanner provided within GVM by Greenbone.
It might be possible that the Kali package maintainers are not building the tool at all or not directly in openvas-scanner (e.g. it might be shipped in Kali in some other package names).
If unsure how to find the correct package name in Kali the https://forums.kali.org forums could help as this looks a packaging specific question related to Kali itself were Greenbone isn’t involved.
As a short follow-up, seems the openvas-scanner_21.4.4-0kali1_amd64.deb package is indeed shipping openvas-nasl as /usr/bin/openvas-nasl.
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