finger command not found

[ChangeMyName_]

Hello everyone, I'm reading a book called "Professional Penetration Testing", I got to the part where I have to enter the "finger" command into the console

Example:

finger [email protected]

I'm using Kali and when i write finger root [at] xxx.xxx.x.xxx Kali tells me "bash: finger: command not found."

My question is, is there an alternative command to "finger" command or am I doing something wrong?

[muts]

try:
apt-get install finger

[ChangeMyName_]

thanks for your reply muts, i followed your suggestion and it worked for me Thank you

[SinTetasNo]

try:
apt-get install finger

I tried the above mentioned but has not worked for me. This is what appears to me:

root@ZZZZ:~# apt-get install finger
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package finger

Thanks in advance

[charonsecurity]

Can you post the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list...

Also try apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and then try to install finger again.

--charonsecurity

[starfighter]

If your sources.list file is correct and up to date then fiinger should be available in the repos .
The following command should tell you if finger is located in the kali repos :

apt-cache search finger

I've just issued the command on my system and finger is available.

[skaadityan]

If your sources.list file is correct and up to date then fiinger should be available in the repos .
The following command should tell you if finger is located in the kali repos :

apt-cache search finger

I've just issued the command on my system and finger is available.

I have tried this and my sources.list is uptodate
#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150205-22:46]/ kali contrib main non-free

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150205-22:46]/ kali contrib main non-free

## Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

and also tried searching cache but its not found there

apt-cache search finger
tcpd - Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities
xprobe - Remote OS identification
blindelephant - A generic web application fingerprinter
arp-scan - arp scanning and fingerprinting tool
ike-scan - discover and fingerprint IKE hosts (IPsec VPN Servers)
plecost - Wordpress fingerprinting tool
p0f - Passive OS fingerprinting tool
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
hping3 - Active Network Smashing Tool
sqlmap - automatic SQL injection tool
libofa0 - Library for acoustic fingerprinting
nmap - The Network Mapper
ruby-ansi - ANSI escape codes at your fingertips
ettercap-graphical - Ettercap GUI-enabled executable
cisco-torch - Cisco device scanner
ettercap-common - Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN
waffit - WAF auditing tool
patator - Multi-purpose brute-forcer
libdigest-md4-perl - MD4 Message Digest for Perl
libwrap0 - Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library



what to do ???

[skycrazy]

Installed or live cd?