Yea, I know its the edgy kid distro, just trying some stuff with it on live USB. I’m not doing this on my Debian install to save time

I’ve been trying to use wifite to pentest my home network but I’m running into an issue. I noticed my iso does not have the packages hcxtools.

Tried installing from terminal but didn’t work and the command from Kali documentation did not work

The error so the following

E: Unable to locate package hcxtools

The command leading to it was

Sudo apt install hcxtools.

What am I doing wrong?

  • hallettjEnglish
    12•6 months ago

    Try sudo apt update before running the install command. The ISO might not be preloaded with a full package index, or it might be out of date.

    If that doesn’t work take a look at /etc/apt/sources.list to see if maybe the ISO uses some minimal repo that doesn’t have the full set of packages.

  • @KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
    7•6 months ago

    First, make sure your VM has access to the internet, for example with ping 8.8.8.8
    Then do sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

    The file should include a line that is exactly this:
    deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    (or it could have kali-last-snapshot in place of kali-rolling)
    If not, replace everything in the file with the line above and save the file with Ctrl+O, then close the editor with Ctrl+X
    Then run:

    sudo apt update   
sudo apt dist-upgrade   
sudo apt install hcxtools
  • @Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
    7•6 months ago

    Did you try apt update and apt search? Is it in the repositories you’re searching? Do you need to add a repository and/or build it from GitHub?

    The reason Kali is a meme is because it’s intended for professionals but often used by newbies, and you’re asking a rather basic question about package management.

    • @BicyclejohnOP
      1•6 months ago

      Will run apt update, just didn’t think to was needed cos it was a new iso.

      I’m not very technical. Not good with terminals

      • @Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
        1•6 months ago

        You’re running a live image, so the list of packages in the external repositories may be blank depending on how Kali does its defaults. Having apt fetch a package list is a very easy first troubleshooting step.

  • @bizdelnick
    6•6 months ago

    Run sudo apt update before trying to install anything.

    • @BicyclejohnOP
      1•6 months ago

      Oki, will do it once I get home, the iso and my machine aren’t with me rn

    • GeaRdevEnglish
      11•6 months ago

      Cuz it’s known for hacker manz software on it and kid hackerz install it to look cool

      • 0xtero
        10•6 months ago

        I see, I was wondering why a IT-Security workers were suddenly being called edgy kids. lol.

  • Yote.zipEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    I haven’t used Kali Linux before, but hcxtools is available in the Debian repos so presumably your /etc/apt/sources.list is invalid (probably the LiveUSB has disabled non-iso sources). Can you post what is in that file?

    Edit: Actually it looks like Kali uses a single line for its repo. Can you add

    deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

    to your /etc/apt/sources.list, run an apt update and try again?

  • @Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    3•6 months ago

    You need to run sudo apt update before trying to install things. Notice that you’ll need to do this every time unless you installed Kali with some permanent storage. Which is why it’s usually a better idea to just use your day-to-day Linux box for stuff, Kali is for when you want to not leave traces and not allow any backtrack to get to your actual system, for most non red team related stuff you don’t need Kali.