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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0006588Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-07-14 09:36
Reporterih8captcha Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006588: hcxtools needed for Wifite but can’t be built - author blames Kali
Description

Wifite’s attacks require missing tools - hcxtools and hcxdumptool.

Attempting to install them prompts for downgrades of several libraries that would break most of all other features of Kali like metasploit.

The author indicates it’s a Kali bug:

https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools/issues/153

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steev

steev

2020-07-19 21:26

reporter   ~0013088

Where are you getting this

hcxtools requires libcurl4=7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9

from - that is an ubuntu package, and not kali package. If you're mixing and matching things from ubuntu... you're gonna have a bad time, but hcxtools builds just fine on a kali installation.

~/git/temp/hcxtools$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2020.2"
VERSION_ID="2020.2"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
~/git/temp/hcxtools$ make
mkdir -p .deps
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxpcapngtool.d -o hcxpcapngtool hcxpcapngtool.c -lz -lcrypto -lssl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxhashtool.d -o hcxhashtool hcxhashtool.c -lcrypto -lssl -lcurl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxpsktool.d -o hcxpsktool hcxpsktool.c -lcrypto -lssl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxwltool.d -o hcxwltool hcxwltool.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxhash2cap.d -o hcxhash2cap hcxhash2cap.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlancap2wpasec.d -o wlancap2wpasec wlancap2wpasec.c -lcrypto -lssl -lcurl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/whoismac.d -o whoismac whoismac.c -lcrypto -lssl -lcurl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxpmkidtool.d -o hcxpmkidtool hcxpmkidtool.c -lcrypto -lssl -lpthread  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanhcx2john.d -o wlanhcx2john wlanhcx2john.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxpcaptool.d -o hcxpcaptool hcxpcaptool.c -lz -lcrypto -lssl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxhashcattool.d -o hcxhashcattool hcxhashcattool.c -lcrypto -lssl -lpthread  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxmactool.d -o hcxmactool hcxmactool.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/hcxessidtool.d -o hcxessidtool hcxessidtool.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanwkp2hcx.d -o wlanwkp2hcx wlanwkp2hcx.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanhcxinfo.d -o wlanhcxinfo wlanhcxinfo.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanhcx2ssid.d -o wlanhcx2ssid wlanhcx2ssid.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanhcxcat.d -o wlanhcxcat wlanhcxcat.c -lcrypto -lssl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanpmk2hcx.d -o wlanpmk2hcx wlanpmk2hcx.c -lcrypto -lssl  -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"
cc -O3 -Wall -Wextra -std=gnu99  -MMD -MF .deps/wlanjohn2hcx.d -o wlanjohn2hcx wlanjohn2hcx.c   -DVERSION_TAG=\"6.0.3-24-ge59a4ed\" -DVERSION_YEAR=\"2020\"

Copy and pasting from my comment in the github issue - can't reproduce the issue here. What changes have you made to your system that things are looking for ubuntu packages?

steev

steev

2020-07-19 22:57

reporter   ~0013089

As you mentioned on github, you were still using 2019.3 - if you still can't build after you update to 2020.2, feel free to reopen.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-07-19 21:12 ih8captcha New Issue
2020-07-19 21:26 steev Note Added: 0013088
2020-07-19 22:57 steev Assigned To => steev
2020-07-19 22:57 steev Status new => closed
2020-07-19 22:57 steev Resolution open => no change required
2020-07-19 22:57 steev Note Added: 0013089
2025-07-14 09:36 g0tmi1k Priority high => normal