not able to run apt --fix-broken install in kali

if you have multiple versions of a  package and there is a conflict of dependencies on your system.

It might happen that you wont be able to install anything or do an apt-get autoremove or apt-get –f install  or apt-get install any thing.

You can copy the package status file

$cp /var/lib/pkg/status /backup loc

Now $ leafpad /var/lib/dpkg/status

Edit the controversial package, make sure you maintain the syntax else you will get parse error

while running apt-get again from cmdline.

Remove the dependencies for a while, we can do an apt-get update/install later on.

Once you have removed the problematic entry, for example the package or its dependency which was creating the problem.

Run the apt --fix-broken install –f again and apt-get update after this.

Install a package without apt-get on kali

Get the zip/tarball from wget

wget tar/bz2
bzip2 file
tar xzf // will give tar
tar xvf // will give folder
./configure
make
make check
make install

Build whatsapp plugin on wireshark

The old code on GitHub for building whatsapp.so isnt working anymore with the new libwireshark-dev.

You need to clone the git on your kali system using

$git clone https://github.com/davidgfnet/wireshark-whatsapp

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

but this will error out because you need to update the CMakefile.txt with the wireshark include dirs and cmake install directories(if you dont have cmake, do an apt-get install cmake and make sure you include the dir in the cmake file)

Sample entries

set(WIRESHARK_INCLUDE_DIRS /usr/include/wireshark)
set(GCRYPT_INCLUDE_DIR /usr/local/include)

Just include them in the CMakeLists.txt top section, make sure Gcrypt is installed)

Good idea to read the readme again on the above git, you need some kind of dependencies before this build can succeed.

There were some modifications required to make this git build work with the newest version of libwireshark-dev, I created a pull request on the git and patched the code.

If the owner accepts my pull you can use the git mentioned above, you can also use my forked one here

$ make install

  P.S Make sure you do apt-get update before doing any thing and include dependencies before running cmake or make.

// Wireshark version 2.4.5 libwireshark-dev 2.4.5

Minishift ( the openshift origin local installation) not starting on windows

To start minishift on windows, you need to have two prereq.

ssh client should be there in path, either cygwin or ssh runtime which comes with windows 10, you can enable it from the features.

also you will need to set the cygwin waring flat either in the command prompt from where you are starting minishift or from the profile. cmd > set CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning // now start mini

cmd> minishift start –vm-driver=virtualbox

This should start the cluster and , minishift status should give you that openshift is running.

You can also try minishift update , it might fix errors you getting.

Also you can set the size of the instances if you are getting space issues while starting minishift, this can be set as a command line parameter while starting minishift. //--disk-size 10g

Troubleshoot:

If you want to recreate the machine, you can delete it from the ~/.minishift/machines/minishift folder and its json and restart minishift, it will pull the openshift 3 again with layers and will start afresh, this is just in case your current config has gone bonkers.