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I'm really mad right now... installed the metasploit framework (didn't clone the git repo, just downloaded the latest installer) and msfconsole works like a charm... and msfvenom is still useless. Is Ubuntu the problem? This doesn't make any sense. Also I accidentally but a space on the url at the end.

Thanks for the help

[msfvenom does nothing?]

The metasploit framework? I completely reinstalled it, firewall disabled and no anti-virus installed... Still the same issue. msfconsole works fine, but msfvenom does nothing... its like the scripts are empty. Also this is what happens when I try to use msfvenom in the msfconsole, just to clear any confusion: http://postimg.org/image/iyahezven/

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I have the community version of metasploit, but on the website it says it needs a community license which I don't have yet, but that doesn't explain why msfvenom does nothing in the console, as I don't think the license is too important.

[msfvenom does nothing?]

Thanks for the reply, however I can only make 3 posts on the first day and really didn't want to wait till tonight... is that against the rules?

Well the msfvenom at "usr/local/bin" seems normal (these scripts have no file type?) with a symbolic link to "/opt/metasploit/app", which in turn has another symbolic link to "opt/metasploit/run.sh". Using "ls -l msfvenom" on the two script locations give similar a output that looks like "lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Feb 20 16:12 msfvenom -> /opt/metasploit/app/msfvenom". The only different being the symbolic link location. Everything seems to be in working order, perhaps the script in "usr/local/bin" had a bad install? Both files are not corrupt. I haven't activated the community edition yet, is that the problem?