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Nessus 10.7.x User Guide:
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Upgrade Nessus > Upgrade Nessus on Linux
VersionsNessus 10.7.x (Latest)Nessus 10.6.xNessus 10.5.xNessus 10.4.xNessus
10.3.x LanguagesEnglish日本語 (Japanese) English


UPGRADE NESSUS ON LINUX

Download Nessus

From the Tenable Downloads Page, download the latest, full-license version of
Nessus.

Use Commands to Upgrade Nessus

From a command prompt, run the Nessus upgrade command.

Note: Nessus automatically stops nessusd when you run the upgrade command.

Red Hat 6 and 7, CentOS 6 and 7, Oracle Linux 6 and 7

# yum upgrade Nessus-<version number and OS>.rpm

Red Hat 8 and later, CentOS 8 and later, Oracle Linux 8 and later, Fedora, SUSE

# dnf upgrade Nessus-<version number and OS>.rpm

Debian/Kali and Ubuntu

# dpkg -i Nessus-<version number and OS>.deb

Start the Nessus Daemon

From a command prompt, restart the nessusd daemon.

Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora, SUSE, FreeBSD

# service nessusd start

Debian/Kali and Ubuntu

# /etc/init.d/nessusd start

This completes the process of upgrading Nessus on a Linux operating system.

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