How to Install Nmap 7.00 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System

Nmap 7.00 is released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Nmap is an open source and cross-platform software that provides users with one of the most powerful network discovery and security auditing utility appreciated by numerous system administrators and security professionals around the world.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to monitor service and host uptime, manage service upgrade schedules, do network inventory, discover available hosts on a network based on raw IP packets, as well as to discover running services and operating systems on a specific network.

In addition, it supports a wide range of advanced network mapping techniques, including ping sweeps, TCP/UDP port scanning mechanisms, as well as the ability to scan networks of hundreds of thousands of computers.

What New in version 7.00

• This is the most important release since Nmap 6.00 back in May 2012! For a list of the most significant improvements and new features, see the announcement at: https://nmap.org/7
• [NSE] Added 6 NSE scripts from 6 authors, bringing the total up to 515! They are all listed at https://nmap.org/nsedoc/, and the summaries are below (authors are listed in brackets):
• targets-xml extracts target addresses from previous Nmap XML results files. [Daniel Miller]
• [GH#232] ssl-dh-params checks for problems with weak, non-safe, and export-grade Diffie-Hellman parameters in TLS handshakes. This includes the LOGJAM vulnerability (CVE-2015-4000). [Jacob Gajek]
• nje-node-brute does brute-forcing of z/OS JES Network Job Entry node names. [Soldier of Fortran]
• ip-https-discover detectings support for Microsoft’s IP over HTTPS tunneling protocol. [Niklaus Schiess]
• [GH#165] broadcast-sonicwall-discover detects and extracts information from SonicWall firewalls. [Raphael Hoegger]
• [GH#38] http-vuln-cve2014-8877 checks for and optionally exploits a vulnerability in CM Download Manager plugin for WordPress. [Mariusz Ziulek]
• [Ncat] [GH#151] [GH#142] New option –no-shutdown prevents Ncat from shutting down when it reads EOF on stdin. This is the same as traditional netcat’s “-d” option. [Adam Saponara]