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Error shows while installing nessus on kali linux

I am trying to install Nessus onto a kali linux.

To install this package I then called the following:

Code:

dpkg -i Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb

Which outputted the following:

Code:

root@kali:~# dpkg -i Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb



(Reading database ... 323266 files and directories currently installed.)



Preparing to unpack Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb ...



Unpacking nessus (6.10.9) ...



dpkg-deb (subprocess): cannot copy archive member from 'Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb' to decompressor pipe: unexpected end of file or stream



dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2



dpkg: error processing archive Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb (--install): cannot copy extracted data for './opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-check-signature' to '/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-check-signature.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream



Errors were encountered while processing: Nessus-6.10.9-debian6_amd64.deb

How to resolve this issue?

Check that the MD5 checksum for the downloaded deb file is correct (https://static.tenable.com/prod_docs...de_nessus.html)

Are you installing as root (sudo)? Also, only old nessus versions are available for free. There is a new program that forked off nessus, called openvas. You might try that one. It's available in the repos.