update: as someone commented below, armitage is now distributed with metasploit. there is no need to follow these directions any more, they are depreciated.
i wanted a pretty gui to show off some metasploit functionality recently which led me to armitage.
i use (and love) backtrack 4, as does most of the world, but i also have a ubuntu based distro (mint 10, which is based on ubuntu 10.10) that i like to use. i found a lot of tutorials on how to install armitage on backtrack, but hardly anything on installing armitage on a non-backtrack machine, and practically nothing for installing armitage on ubuntu with a postgres backend. i decided i wanted to install armitage on the mint machine using postgres (per the armitage recommendation here) and not finding any good instructions, i thought i would give it a go and document. here we go:
first, you need to have some of the basics installed. i will leave it to others to describe how to install these if you need help (others == google).
- java 1.6 (has to be the official oracle java version)
- metasploit 3.5+
next, lets install postgres:
sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.4
now that postgres is installed, we need to create a db and a user for armitage to use. i su’ed to the postgres user to do this:
