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nmap package

zenmap package is not available in latest LTS release - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Bug #1876269 reported by Norbert
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nmap
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nmap (Ubuntu)
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python-gtk2 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The zenmap package is not available in latest LTS release - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

But it still may be installed by satisfying only one dependency:

```
mkdir -p ~/Downloads/zenmap
cd ~/Downloads/zenmap

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nmap/zenmap_7.80+dfsg1-1build1_all.deb

sudo apt install ./*.deb
```

Please create official package with Python 3 or Python 2 support (by uploading python-gtk2 back to focal archive).

Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: focal
tags: added: python2
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nmap (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in python-gtk2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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edurenye (edurenye) wrote :

The problem is that python 2 has been deprecated in Ubuntu 20.04, so it is zenmap that has to add python 3 support to be added again to the official repositories, there is already an issue:

https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2022

https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1176

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote :

Hi,

edurenye correctly identified the root of the problem. The python-gtk2 package won't come back in Ubuntu, hence I marked the task as Won't Fix. The zenmap is likely to be reintroduced after a Python 3 version will be made available.

All of the above also applies to Debian, where zenmap has been dropped too. As the latest version of zenmap in Ubuntu was a sync from Debian, the right place where to reintroduce the package will likely be Debian.

Changed in python-gtk2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in nmap (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in nmap:
status: Unknown → New
Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: py2-removal
removed: python2
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mikefreeman (mike-freeman-studio) wrote :

Since this issue has been fixed at the nmap github (https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2088), will this be backported into Ubuntu 20.04 repos, or will we have to compile it ourselves until it shows up in a future LTS release?

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote :

Hi,

The PR you linked hasn't been merged yet, and indeed https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/1176 is still open. Even after this is fixed in a new upstream release of nmap I personally doubt the fix will be backported to Focal, it doesn't tick enough boxes in [1]. However once the package will be updated in Ubuntu it will probably be easy to compile it for Focal in a PPA.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :

Official deb-package still needed.

Possible workaround is to use [Flatpak version of ZenMap](https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.nmap.Zenmap) as follows:

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flatpak

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.nmap.Zenmap
```

Such installation needs ~330 Mb of downloads, and will use ~1 Gb on disk.

tags: added: hirsute impish jammy
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Changed in nmap:
status: New → Fix Released
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Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro) wrote :

It seems the fix was merged upstream and will be available in 7.94.

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