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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0006620Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2020-08-04 17:09
Reporterwildwestcyb Assigned Torhertzog  
PriorityurgentSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006620: Unable to Snort after trying everything!
Description

Hi everyone
I am wanting to install Snort for setting up an IDS.

However running these commands:

apt-get update

apt-get install snort

I get the error message over and over:

"E: Unable to locate package Snort"

I have also tried doing a complete re-install on my VM of Kali Linux ISO disc image

Other things I have tried at one stage:

Going to the
https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/kali-linux-sources-list-repositories/
I then tried to copy the relevant command lines to my sources-list.

Now I can't even seem to find my sources.list or it doesn't give me access.

Anyone know how to do a re-install of Kali Linux from the terminal? Surely that is possible.

I also maybe I should have said yes to mirrors in the setup stage since it mentioned you have a limited setup?

I need to get this sorted asap so I can start working on SNORT itself.

I have done everything other people have mentioned and nothing has worked.

I did think using the dpkg command would work but no...

I think this is a bug...and if it is not why is calling up packages such a challenge in Kali post-installation. I have seen so many people struggling for days like me all over the web.

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sbrun

sbrun

2020-08-04 14:21

manager   ~0013197

You can't install snort because it's no longer in Kali (since March 2020):
https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/snort

Kali is based in Debian Testing and the package has been removed from Testing because of serious issue during upgrade.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-08-04 11:10 wildwestcyb New Issue
2020-08-04 11:10 wildwestcyb File Added: image.png
2020-08-04 11:10 wildwestcyb File Added: image-2.png
2020-08-04 14:21 sbrun Note Added: 0013197
2020-08-04 17:09 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2020-08-04 17:09 rhertzog Status new => closed
2020-08-04 17:09 rhertzog Resolution open => won't fix