Installing Nessus on Backtrack 3

As i blogged lately Backtrack 3 was released. Now the worst thing about it is that Tenable would not allow nessus for redistribution, therefor it is not included. Here is how to fix this for yourself (tested successfully with the vmware version of bt3 final):

Download the Nessus and NessusClient Fedora Core 8 RPM’s from the Nessus website, then
convert them to TGZ :
rpm2tgz Nessus-3.2.x-fc8.i386.rpm
rpm2tgz NessusClient-3.2.x-fc8.i386.rpm

Use the Slackware Package Tool to extract and install the packages from the current directory:
pkgtool

Configure the application:
cd /opt/
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/nessus/sbin:/opt/nessus/bin:
cp /usr/lib/libssl.so /lib
cp /usr/lib/libcrypto.so /lib
cp /opt/nessus/lib/libnessus.so.3 /lib
cp /opt/nessus/lib/libnessusrx.so.0 /lib
cp /opt/nessus/lib/libpcap-nessus.so.3 /lib
cd /lib
ln libssl.so libssl.so.6
ln libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.6

nano /etc/ld.so.conf
/opt/nessus/lib #add this line to the config file

ldconfig
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-mkcert
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser

Next update your plugins. Make use you registered at the Nessus website. Use the code they emailed to you below.
cd /opt/nessus/etc/nessus
nessus-fetch –register bla-bla-bla-bla

Run the Nessus Server:
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd

Launch the Client
/opt/nessus/bin/NessusClient

the credits for this CUTE guide go to williamc, the source is forums.remote-exploit.org