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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0009057Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2025-12-23 07:32
Reporterafunnynut Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionopen 
Summary0009057: theHarvester cannot run as brotli is not installed
Description

theHarvester cannot run on default install of Kali with "Can not decode content encoding: br"

On checking, brotli isn't installed by default

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/issues/4491

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afunnynut

afunnynut

2025-01-03 08:03

reporter   ~0020214

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arnaudr

arnaudr

2025-01-06 04:10

manager   ~0020222

Please provides logs, or screenshots, or more explanations. I can install theHarverster and run a simple test command without any issue. Thanks.

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2025-12-23 07:32

administrator   ~0021131

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://www.kali.org/docs/community/submitting-issues-kali-bug-tracker/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-01-03 08:00 afunnynut New Issue
2025-01-03 08:03 afunnynut Note Added: 0020214
2025-01-06 04:10 arnaudr Note Added: 0020222
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0021131
2025-12-23 07:32 g0tmi1k Status new => closed