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?
Run
sudo apt updatebefore trying to install anything.Oki, will do it once I get home, the iso and my machine aren’t with me rn
First, make sure your VM has access to the internet, for example with
ping 8.8.8.8
Then dosudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listThe 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 havekali-last-snapshotin place ofkali-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 hcxtoolsDid 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.
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
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.
Probably means the repos apt is checking doesn’t have that tool, not sure thi
You need to run
sudo apt updatebefore 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.