unable to install kali full unmet depencies

[hushhushpuppy]

Hey all, i hope somebody can help resolve this issue with me.

Steps before problem occured:
- downloaded the image for the Odroid-C2
- DD-ed the image to micro-sd card.
- resized the 2nc partition
- booted successfully into kali
- apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
- apt-get install kali-linux-full

And there, in the last step, apt could not install kali-linux-full due to unmet dependencies.
It was unable to install beef-xss.

Trying to apt-get install beef-xss results in another missing dependency, ruby-therubyracer.
therubyracer cannot be installed from apt, so I tried gem install therubyracer were I encountered more errors.

Searching the web I've found only a few threads, but most are about issues when beef-xss is already installed.
The only one that seems to hit the nail is this issue over a year old at https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3634

Could somebody help me, point me in the right directions?
Many thanks in advance!

[Mister_X]

When you mention failure, show the errors.

Instead of doing apt-get upgrade, do a dist-upgrade.

But in case of unmet dependencies, you can try apt-get -f install.

[hushhushpuppy]

Sorry, forgot to mention I did dist-upgrade and apt-get -f install as well.
And I didn't think those Ruby errors would matter here in the forums. But for full-disclosure I've post it on pastebin, https://pastebin.com/9ry4SqKZ

Should I not been using the image from https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images/ but instead use armhf image?

[hushhushpuppy]

Anyone any pointers? Doubt I'm the only one running into this. :confused:

[Mister_X]

If you could post the whole error, then maybe. If not, then my answer is Google for the error.

[muddy]

Same problem here
did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade then apt-get install kali-linux-full
it went like this: and i tried apt-get -f install as suggested - still no loving.

root@kali-arm64:~# apt-get install kali-linux-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kali-linux-full : Depends: beef-xss but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@kali-arm64:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@kali-arm64:~#

Update 2-25-2018: I have found several other people running into this same problem.... nobody has come forward either in Kali.org or the Odroid forum with a solution or saying they were able to successfully install anything other than the basic (nearly no tools) Kali install on an Odroid C series. (32 bit C0 or C1, C1+ OdroidC distro or C2 64 bit OdroidC2 distro). Doesn't look like you can install the metapackages - either kali-linux-full or kali-Linux-wireless - and another user said kali-Linux-web ... all in all - no point in running Kali on an Odroid if you can't get any meaningful tools installed. I tried 2017.1, 2017.3 and 2018.1 - none of them worked. Just want to save everybody some time and effort and frustration.

[steev]

Same problem here
did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade then apt-get install kali-linux-full
it went like this: and i tried apt-get -f install as suggested - still no loving.

root@kali-arm64:~# apt-get install kali-linux-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kali-linux-full : Depends: beef-xss but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@kali-arm64:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@kali-arm64:~#

Update 2-25-2018: I have found several other people running into this same problem.... nobody has come forward either in Kali.org or the Odroid forum with a solution or saying they were able to successfully install anything other than the basic (nearly no tools) Kali install on an Odroid C series. (32 bit C0 or C1, C1+ OdroidC distro or C2 64 bit OdroidC2 distro). Doesn't look like you can install the metapackages - either kali-linux-full or kali-Linux-wireless - and another user said kali-Linux-web ... all in all - no point in running Kali on an Odroid if you can't get any meaningful tools installed. I tried 2017.1, 2017.3 and 2018.1 - none of them worked. Just want to save everybody some time and effort and frustration.

You can't install kali-linux-full due to it having a dependency on beef-xss.

beef-xss can't be installed because it (and a few other packages) depend on ruby-therubyracer - unfortunately, ruby-therubyracer does not have a new enough version of libv8 to support arm64 (it's version of v8 is 3.15.11.1 iirc) which is from 2013, when arm64 didn't really exist. Until upstream pulls in a newer version of libv8 (and they are working on it - you can follow along at https://github.com/cowboyd/libv8/pull/258 .

Now, you can't install the *metapackages* kali-linux-all, kali-linux-full, or kali-linux-web, however, kali-linux-wireless and the other meta packages install just fine. You can still look at the packages that the metapackages pull in, and pull them in manually until upstream has fixed the issue.

ARM64 isn't exactly widespread, so efforts from people who do have the hardware are greatly appreciated by upstream projects.

Note: this only applies to arm64 devices. The 32bit C0, C1, C1+ should all work fine as they are armhf and fully supported by that ruby-therubyracer.

[n1kk]

Here is the cure all for new users who are having issues with apt.

dpkg --purge --force-depends "package name"

This is the answer for our (my) problem. Personally I got rid of all packages that were giving me problems and I reinstalled program.

dpkg --purge --force-depends "gcc-multilib"

this helps me