HowTo: Install Nmap with GUI FrontEnd

With old blog entry, here's how to have a GUI front-end for port and host scanning linux tool, Nmap. Port and host scanning via nmap is commonly done from linux terminal command line or CLI. If you wish to use nmamp with your X, here's an entry to do that.

As we all know, nmap is a free and opensource software used for network exploitation and security auditing. Using a combined usage of Zenmap and Umit, you can now have the power of Nmap right from your X desktop.

Here's a quick entry on how to have a multi-platform graphical Nmap and results viewer from your X.

Nmap Frontend Fedora 8 Installation

This package includes zenmap, a GTK+ frontend for nmap. The nmap package must be installed before installing nmap-frontend.

# yum -y install nmap-frontend nmap

Binary Launch

# nmapfe

Sample Screenshot:


License: BSD with advertising, BSD, GPLv2

That is all, enjoy.