openvas-plugins-base software package provides remote network security auditor - basic plugins, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install openvas-plugins-base
openvas-plugins-base is installed in your system.
Make ensure the openvas-plugins-base package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep openvas-plugins-base *
You will get with openvas-plugins-base package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | openvas-plugins-base |
| Version | 1:20100705-4ubuntu1 |
| Description | remote network security auditor - basic plugins |
| Sub Section | Net |