Arch: Install latest SSLScan version on Arch

If you would like to use the latest version of SSLScan in Arch. You can build a package by using the AUR.

First of all install the base-devel package using pacman.

$ sudo pacman -S base-devel

Create a new directory to build the package.

$ cd ~
$ mkdir build
$ cd build

Download the sslscan-git.tar.gz package and unpack it.

$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ss/sslscan-git/sslscan-git.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf sslscan-git.tar.gz

Move to the new directory.

$ cd sslscan-git/

Build the sslscan-git package. This will download the latest source directly from the git repository.

$ makepkg -s

Install the package using pacman

$ sudo pacman -U sslscan-git-1.10.0.r12.g2d86402-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

To use SSLScan open a terminal and run the command as follows.

$ sslscan 127.0.0.1

To get more information on how to use SSLScan. Just use the man page ...

$ man sslscan

... or use the internal help.

$ sslscan --help