Metasploit Framework Installation on Ubuntu or Debian

These instructions are written assuming the server is running on Debian or Ubuntu, and the system username is "admin".

1) Assuming it's a fresh server, we first update the repos and installed software:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2) We then install the pre-requisite software:

sudo apt-get -y install autoconf bison build-essential curl git-core libapr1 libaprutil1 libcurl4-openssl-dev libgmp3-dev libpcap-dev libpq-dev libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libsvn1 libtool libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libyaml-dev locate ncurses-dev openssl postgresql postgresql-contrib wget xsel zlib1g zlib1g-dev

3) Confirm your current working directory by typing "pwd". It sould return "/home/admin". If not, then type "cd /home/admin".

4) We download MSF and set the correct user/group permision:

sudo git clone https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework.git
sudo chown -R admin:admin /home/admin/metasploit-framework

5) We install RVM and Ruby:

curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg --import -
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
cd ~/metasploit-framework
rvm --install .ruby-version

To confirm that Ruby is installed, type: ruby -v

6) Now we install MSF:

gem install bundler
bundle install

7) We installed PostgreSQL on step 2, now as add a new user and a database:

sudo -s
su postgres
createuser msf -P -S -R -D
createdb -O msf msf
exit
exit

Remember the password you used after using the "createuser" command.

8) We add the database credentials:

cd config
cp database.yml.example database.yml
nano database.yml

Now, edit the following fields and put:

database: msf
username: msf
password: *** (the one you set on previous step)

Once done, press Ctrl+o to save, and Ctrl+x to exit Nano editor.

9) We create soft links needed:

cd ~/metasploit-framework
sudo bash -c 'for MSF in $(ls msf*); do ln -s /home/admin/metasploit-framework/$MSF /usr/local/bin/$MSF;done'

10) Provided everything was done properly, we can now run MSF by typing:

msfconsole