Easy Install Zenmap on Kali Linux| step-by-step

Soban Malik
2 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open-source application that aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users.

Follow the instructions step by step :

1)Go the the official website of Nmap:

https://nmap.org/

2)Then click the zenmap GUI :

3)Then Click on the Nmap download page :

4)Then Click on the Linux RPM:

5)Then Download the latest version of the Zenmap :

6)Open Terminal and go to the downloads directory:

 cd Downloads/ #change dir to dowload
ls #listing the dir to check the zenmap dowloaded

7)Run the following commands:

sudo apt install alien # allows you to convert Debian packages to RPM packages, and vice versa.

sudo apt-get install RPM #if required
sudo alien zenmap-7.94-1.noarch.rpm #install the zenmap

Install additional dependencies:

8)Run and install all these dependencies:

 wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

wget http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygobject-2/python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pycairo/python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i zenmap_7.94-2_all.deb

9)Now Run the zenmap :

sudo zenmap

10)If u unistall the zenmap:

 sudo dpkg -r zenmap

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