How to Install Zenmap (GUI) on Kali Linux | Advanced Coding

Installing Zenmap 

Zenmap is the Graphical Front End or Graphical User Interface (GUI) version of Nmap. Zenmap helps its users to easily interact with the Nmap commands. For the beginners of this Cyber Security Arena, we are happy to suggest you to try Zenmap before Nmap, so that you can understand and distinguish between all the features of Nmap. Because you can have a massive experience of Network Scanning with this GUI tool.

A graphical tool is always for the lazy fellows, please don't mind. I meant, we do no need to type so much command for a simple task if we use this tool.

Requirements for installing Zenmap GUI Tool:

Zenmap is a free & open source platform. You can use it on Windows/Mac/Linux/OS X/BSD etc.

Zenmap is written in Python, so for using this tool you must have installed Python and its GTK Packages on yout Computer.

Installing Zenmap

Here in this article, we are going to cover it only for Kali Linux now, later we'll update this.

If you want to download/install Zenmap for other platforms, please go through the following link.

For - Microsoft Windows

For - Mac OS

For - Other Linux Distros.

Installing Zenmap on Kali Linux

For the installation of Zenman on our Kali Machine, we need to install some extra but useful tools.

We have listed those tool down below, if you have installed all these, then follow the further steps.

• Alien
• Dpkg

Type the following commands for installing these tools.

For intslling  Alien-

$ sudo apt install alien -y 

For installing dpkg-

$ sudo apt install dpkg 

Installing Zenmap on Kali Linux

Now download the Zenmap tool on your Kali Linux Computer.

Download Zenmap

After downloading Zenmap on your Kali Machine, Open your Kali Terminal and go to the directory where you have downloaded the file and list all the files out there.

Follow the commands (in our case, I have saved the downloaded file in /Downloads directory)

 $ cd Downloads/                                                      

 $ ls                                                                         

Now convert the .rpm file to .deb file with the following command-

But Before doing that, you must be root for converting any file with alien. If you are logged in as root, then its Ok. If not then follow the commands-

 $ sudo su                                                                

 $ alien zenmap-7.91-1.noarch.rpm                          

After executing the above command, you may see a new file generated with the extension named ".deb" .

Awesome! you have left only the final step to install zenmap on your Computer.

Install Zenmap with the following command-

$ dpkg -i zenmap_7.91-2_all.deb                              

Congratulation! You Have Successfully installed Zenmap on Your Kali Linux Computer.

If you are installed Kali Linux on WSL2, I don't think it will work successfully. 

For doing that you need to add the python-gtk on your system.

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