urbanadventurer / WhatWeb

Next generation web scanner
https://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb
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Error when installing it in MacOS using `sudo make install` #387

Closed Fayxx closed 1 year ago

Fayxx commented 1 year ago

upgrade/installation will leave the my-plugins folder rm -Rf /usr/bin/whatweb /usr/share/man/man1/whatweb.1 /usr/share/man/man1/whatweb.1.gz /usr/share/doc/whatweb /usr/share/whatweb/plugins-disabled /usr/share/whatweb/plugins /usr/share/whatweb/lib /usr/share/whatweb/plugin-development /usr/share/whatweb/addons install -d /usr/share/man/man1 install: chmod 755 /usr/share/man/man1: Operation not permitted install -p -m 644 whatweb.1 /usr/share/man/man1/whatweb.1 install: /usr/share/man/man1/whatweb.1: Operation not permitted make: *** [install] Error 71

bcoles commented 1 year ago

Leaving the my-plugins directory is intentional. This prevents deleting custom plugins.

Fayxx commented 1 year ago

And what can I do to install WhatWeb anyways?

bcoles commented 1 year ago

On Linux/OSX: make install

See also: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/wiki/Installation

Fayxx commented 1 year ago

Nevermind. Got it.