Installing Metasploit on Fedora Core Linux

At this time, no package exists for Metasploit 3. In order to use the Metasploit Framework on Fedora Core, the following packages need to be installed:

# yum install ruby ruby-irb ruby-libs ruby-rdoc ruby-devel readline rubygems

Once these have been installed, use the "gem" command to install version 1.2.2 of rails (required for the msfweb interface).

 # gem install -v=1.2.2 rails

If you would like to use the online update feature, you will need to install the "subversion" package as well. Once the pre-requisites have been installed, download the Unix tarball from Framework Website and extract it to the directory of your choice. If everything was installed correctly, execute the interface of your choice to get started (msfconsole, msfweb, etc).