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Easy Metasploit Install on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Steps to install Metasploit on Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux
1.) Enable Developer Mode
C:\> reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModelUnlock" /t REG_DWORD /f /v "AllowDevelopmentWithoutDevLicense" /d "1"
2.) Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux
C:\> DISM /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
3.) Reboot
4.) Type "bash" at cmd line to get into Windows Subsystem for Linux and create a new password for your user.
5.) Install Metasploit
test@Desktop:/mnt/c$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-omnibus/master/config/templates/metasploit-framework-wrappers/msfupdate.erb > msfinstall && chmod 755 msfinstall && ./msfinstall
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ghost commented Nov 13, 2021

Yah

I phase the same issue

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install metasploit-framework

these 3 commands help me to solve this problem

Yah! It solves installation

@Jkudjo
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Jkudjo commented Nov 13, 2021

how does one run the ".run" in the WSL2.

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Jkudjo commented Nov 13, 2021

how does one run the ".run" in the WSL2.

OOh i just did it

#chmod +x metasploit-latest-linux-x64-installer.run

./metasploit-latest-linux-x64-installer.run

The above did the magic.

@rmdhfz
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rmdhfz commented Nov 26, 2021

I phase the same issue

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install metasploit-framework

these 3 commands help me to solve this problem

Nice, thank you

@Deltwin
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Deltwin commented Dec 17, 2021

Doesn't work for me

  1. Sudo apt update && apt upgrade
  2. sudo apt install metasploit-framework

Error:
Unable to locate package metasploit-framework

@Jkudjo
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Jkudjo commented Dec 18, 2021

@Deltwin

try this
sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev libssl-dev libpq5 libpq-dev libreadline5 libsqlite3-dev libpcap-dev git-core autoconf postgresql pgadmin3 curl zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev curl zlib1g-dev gawk bison libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev libtool sqlite3 libgmp-dev gnupg2 dirmngr

@reidsneo
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on ubuntu also you need to run
sudo gem install bundler

@Tribhuwan-Joshi
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Tribhuwan-Joshi commented Dec 24, 2021

Above all of these commands nothing is working for me

@dolphin-cat
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use ubuntu instead, kali has some weird issues with apt on wsl2

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