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. If you are one among the lazy fellows like me (please don’t mind), then this article will blow your mind, because 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.
This Zenmap tool is written in Python, and that is why, for using this tool the user must have installed Python and its GTK Packages on his or her Computer.
Installing Zenmap on Kali Linux
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 and install the Zenmap tool 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.
Type the following commands for installing these tools.
For installing 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 become a root user to convert any file with the alien package. And if you are already logged in as a root user, 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 using Kali Linux on WSL2, I don’t think it will work properly on your system. And for doing that you need to add the python-gtk packages on your Kali System.
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