How to upgrade to current version of rkhunter?

[wolfv6]

Today I installed rkhunter:D, but an old version got installed:(:

From the terminal
sudo apt-get install rkhunter
...
sudo rkhunter --versioncheck
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.6 ]
Checking rkhunter version...
This version : 1.3.6
Latest version: 1.3.8
Update available
What is the procedure for upgrading to the latest version?

http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ says:
release 1.3.8 obsoletes all previous releases. Please upgrade real soon now.
1.3.8 (17/11/2010)
1.3.6 (30/11/2009)

I am on Ubuntu 11.04

Thank you.

Should this thread have be posted on "Security Discussions"?

[wolfv6]

I tried the "update" command. '1.3.8' was not found, which seems to contradict "Latest version: 1.3.8 Update available".

From the terminal
sudo apt-get update
...
sudo apt-get install rkhunter=1.3.8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '1.3.8' for 'rkhunter' was not found
Does this mean that the rkhunter repository is broken?
What other ways are there of getting an update?

[whatthefunk]

You would normally do

sudo rkhunter --update

But, I have the same situation and after running the above update command the system says that there are no updates. Weird...

[whatthefunk]

Okay, figured it out. The --update command only updates the files for the current version but doesnt upgrade to a newer version. Go to the rkhunter Source Forge page here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/
Download the tar.gz file. Open up a terminal,go to your downloads directory and do the following:

tar xvfz rkhunter-1.3.8.tar.gz

cd rkhunter-1.3.8/

sudo ./installer.sh --install

That should get the newest version on your system.

[wolfv6]

Thanks WTF.

Here is how I got rkhunter to work:
Download Rootkit Hunter from http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ and untarred it.
Then install and run from the terminal:

sudo ./installer.sh --install
sudo rkhunter --versioncheck
sudo rkhunter --update --propupd
sudo rkhunter --checkall
It worked. Got some warnings as expected.

[csandrew]

Thanks WTF and wolfv6, your suggestions worked great on Ubuntu Server 10.04
I'm sorta surprised the ubuntu repositories are so out of date.


Download Rootkit Hunter from http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/


tar xvfz rkhunter-1.3.8.tar.gz
cd rkhunter-1.3.8/
sudo ./installer.sh --install
...
sudo rkhunter --versioncheck
sudo rkhunter --update --propupd
sudo rkhunter --checkall

[whatthefunk]

Thanks WTF and wolfv6, your suggestions worked great on Ubuntu Server 10.04
I'm sorta surprised the ubuntu repositories are so out of date.


Download Rootkit Hunter from http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/


tar xvfz rkhunter-1.3.8.tar.gz
cd rkhunter-1.3.8/
sudo ./installer.sh --install
...
sudo rkhunter --versioncheck
sudo rkhunter --update --propupd
sudo rkhunter --checkall


Its not that theyre out of date...there are recent fixes for recent versions in the repositories. The thing is that the only way to upgrade to a new version of rkhunter is to download the nexest tarball. Kind of werid...