Installing Dradis on Kali Linux

We're going to install Dradis Community Edition from GitHub so that you can stay up to date with the latest changes.

Dependencies

1. You need a Ruby environment; do this unless rbenv is already installed.
2. You need a couple of libraries:

   # apt-get install libpq-dev libsqlite3-dev

That's it!

You're ready to follow the steps in the Installing Dradis from Git guide.

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Troubleshooting

This section contains:

• Unable to fetch some archives
• add_root_vertex' for Molinillo::DependencyGraph:
• NameError: uninitialized constant Rack::Session::Abstract::Persisted

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Unable to fetch some archives

If you get an error message like Unable to fetch some archives as shown in the screenshot below, run the following in your terminal before continuing:

apt-get update

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add_root_vertex' for Molinillo::DependencyGraph:

Run the following command in your terminal before re-trying the bundle install command.

apt-get install --only-upgrade bundler

Credit for this fix goes to GitHub user codebycody.

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NameError: uninitialized constant Rack::Session::Abstract::Persisted

If you get a stack trace like the one shown below, the gems were likely not installed on the same path as your dradis-ce folder.

To resolve this, make sure that you run the bundle install command with the --path flag set like:

$ bundle install --path /usr/lib/dradis-ce/

Note: if your dradis-ce folder lives under a different path, use that path instead of /usr/lib/dradis-ce/ in the example above.

Example stack trace:

Database 'db/development.sqlite3' already exists
Database 'db/test.sqlite3' already exists
rails aborted!
NameError: uninitialized constant Rack::Session::Abstract::Persisted
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.2/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:90:in `<module:Session>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.2/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:8:in `<module:ActionDispatch>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.2/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:7:in `<top (required)>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/actionpack-5.0.2/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/cookie_store.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb:181:in `const_get'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/configuration.rb:181:in `session_store'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/default_middleware_stack.rb:58:in `block in build_stack'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/default_middleware_stack.rb:13:in `tap'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/default_middleware_stack.rb:13:in `build_stack'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application.rb:504:in `default_middleware_stack'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/engine.rb:506:in `block in app'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/engine.rb:504:in `synchronize'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/engine.rb:504:in `app'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:37:in `block in <module:Finisher>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `instance_exec'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/initializable.rb:30:in `run'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/initializable.rb:55:in `block in run_initializers'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/initializable.rb:54:in `run_initializers'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application.rb:352:in `initialize!'
/usr/dradis-ce/config/environment.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application.rb:328:in `require_environment!'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/application.rb:448:in `block in run_tasks_blocks'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/commands/rake_proxy.rb:14:in `block in run_rake_task'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/commands/rake_proxy.rb:11:in `run_rake_task'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:51:in `run_command!'
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-5.0.2/lib/rails/commands.rb:18:in `<top (required)>'
bin/rails:4:in `require'
bin/rails:4:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:setup => db:schema:load_if_ruby => environment
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

== Command ["bin/rails db:setup"] failed ==

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Next? Check out the rest of the Dradis Community guides.