I’m on bookworm now myself. Check this out https://forum.greenbone.net/t/external-access-to-gsa-web-interface-ip/1671/4 and thanks I’ll let you know if I run into trouble!

I think my issue was I was building it on a debian 11 bullseye. I managed to get all the individual pieces built and running, there was just one piece missing and I can’t remember which now. I’ll certainly give it a go. Someone just sent me a kvm build of debian sid just for that reason in fact! I believe they are working on the gvm debian package.

Yes you can! I’ve attempted on debian before but it’s something like 12 components you have to build and configure and I ran into some issues. It’s been a while though and I don’t remember exactly what gave me trouble. I know I had issues at one point due to the host not having enough ram. If you don’t have at least 8 gigs it’s not going to be happy. At least in my experience.

Let me know how it goes though and what distro you use.

They have pretty good documentation.

I know you said preferably no docker, but greenbone community edition is nice. It’s a fork from nessus back in the day. They don’t really put any restrictions on the community version. If you want to see it in action I have a test server up and running.