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0009520Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2026-01-24 05:532026-01-24 05:53
Reporterovi-lol Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0009520: subfinder 2.12.0-0kali1 installs without binary (deb contains only /usr/share/doc), command not found
Description

Problem:
After installing subfinder from apt on kali-rolling, the command is missing ("command not found").
The .deb fetched from the repo contains only documentation (/usr/share/doc/subfinder) and no binary like /usr/bin/subfinder.

Steps to reproduce:
1) sudo apt update
2) sudo apt install subfinder
3) subfinder -h

Expected result:
subfinder runs and prints help.

Actual result:
zsh: command not found: subfinder

Environment:

  • Kali GNU/Linux Rolling 2025.4 (kali-rolling), amd64
  • Kernel: Linux ovi 6.18.5+kali-amd64 0000001 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.18.5-1kali1 (2026-01-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
  • Shell: zsh

Package info:

  • subfinder 2.12.0-0kali1 installed (dpkg -s shows "install ok installed")
  • apt-cache policy:
    subfinder:
    Installed: 2.12.0-0kali1
    Candidate: 2.12.0-0kali1
    500 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages

Evidence:

  • command -v subfinder => (no output)
  • dpkg -L subfinder shows only:
    /usr/share/doc/subfinder
    (no /usr/bin/subfinder)
  • apt-get download subfinder fetched only 2,592 bytes:
    Get:1 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 subfinder amd64 2.12.0-0kali1 [2,592 B]
  • dpkg-deb -c subfinder_*_amd64.deb shows only documentation files:
    ./usr/share/doc/subfinder/changelog.Debian.gz
    ./usr/share/doc/subfinder/copyright
    (no binary included)
Attached Files
issue (151 bytes)    
subfinder -h
/usr/share/kali-menu/exec-in-shell: 1: eval: subfinder: not found
┌──(ovi㉿ovi)-[~]
└─$ subfinder
subfinder: command not found
issue (151 bytes)   
issue2 (453 bytes)    
{
  echo "== apt-cache policy subfinder ==";
  apt-cache policy subfinder;
  echo;
  echo "== dpkg -s subfinder ==";
  dpkg -s subfinder;
  echo;
  echo "== dpkg -L subfinder ==";
  dpkg -L subfinder;
  echo;
  echo "== dpkg-deb -c downloaded deb ==";
  dpkg-deb -c subfinder_*_amd64.deb;
  echo;
  echo "== uname -a ==";
  uname -a;
  echo;
  echo "== lsb_release -a ==";
  lsb_release -a 2>/dev/null || cat /etc/os-release;
} > subfinder-kali-bug.txt
issue2 (453 bytes)   

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2026-01-24 05:53 ovi-lol New Issue
2026-01-24 05:53 ovi-lol File Added: issue
2026-01-24 05:53 ovi-lol File Added: issue2