The best way is to start by uninstalling Metasploit Framework v3 first. Installing Metasploit Community over the existing Metasploit Framework installation won't work for several reasons, one being a conflict with the postgres database.

If you want to use Metasploit Express or Metasploit Pro on BackTrack5, follow the same instructions and enter your product key at the end to activate your commercial Metasploit edition. This post tells you how you can update your version of BackTrack5 to Metasploit Community, including both the stable and the dev trunk of Metasploit Framework. In addition, BT5 only makes the development trunk available, not the stable trunk ( read about the difference). Updating Metasploit Framework using the msfupdate command will not install the Web UI. Unfortunately, Metasploit Community, which brings a great new Web UI and other functionality, was introduced in version 4.1, so it's not included by default.

Update: I just published a new blog post for using Metasploit on BackTrack 5 R2.īackTrack 5 R1 comes pre-installed with Metasploit Framework 4.0.

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