OpenVAS update fails, bad software

On a clean system (fresh install) OpenVAS fails to install with following error:

[..]
sent 1067 bytes  received 539490930 bytes  5896087.40 bytes/sec
total size is 539421528  speedup is 1.00
[i] Initializing scap database
[i] Updating CPEs
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2002.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2003.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2004.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2005.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2006.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2007.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2008.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2009.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2010.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2011.xml
Killed
-:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
-:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
unable to parse -
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2012.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2013.xml
[i] Updating CVSS scores and CVE counts
[i] Updating OVAL data
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/c/oval.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/i/oval.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/m/oval.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/p/oval.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/v/family/ios.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/v/family/macos.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/v/family/pixos.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/v/family/unix.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/oval/5.10/org.mitre.oval/v/family/windows.xml
[i] No user data directory '/var/lib/openvas/scap-data/private' found.

What a great piece of software…