Installation on Unix

Installing the Framework is as easy as extracting the tarball, changing into the created directory, and executing your preferred user interface. We strongly recommend that you compile and install the Term::ReadLine::Gnu Perl module found in the "extras" subdirectory. This package enables extensive tab-completion support in the msfconsole interface; msfconsole is the preferred UI for everyday use. If SSL support is desired, you should install the Net::SSLeay Perl module as well, this can also be found in the "extras" subdirectory. Please refer to appendices and for detailed instructions.

To perform a system-wide installation, we recommend that you copy the entire Framework directory into a globally accessible location (/usr/local/msf) and then create symbolic links from the msf* applications to a directory in the system path (/usr/local/bin). User-specific modules can be placed into $HOME/.msf/<TYPE> directory, where TYPE is one of exploits, payloads, nops, or encoders.