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Hashcat upgrade issue - Losa - 10-31-2016
Hi Guys !
Im trying to upgrade The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) Linux 1.0 to The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) Linux 2016 and
having some issues regarding Hashcat.
Here is the console info :
root@TE:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
acccheck accountsservice afflib-tools aircrack-ng alacarte apache2 apache2-utils apktool apt apt-listchanges apt-utils apt-xapian-index
aptitude aptitude-common arachni arping asleap aspell at at-spi2-core atftpd avahi-daemon avr-libc avrdude baobab base-passwd bash bc
beef-xss bind9-host binfmt-support binutils-avr binwalk bison
etc etc
The following packages will be upgraded:
hashcat-utils
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1234 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/29.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 80.9 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 326423 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hashcat-utils 1.1-0kali0 (using .../hashcat-utils_1.2-0kali1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: command dir_to_symlink is unknown
Hint: upgrading dpkg to a newer version might help.
sage: dpkg-maintscript-helper <command> <parameter>... -- <maintainer-script-parameter>...
Commands:
supports <command>
Returns 0 (success) if the given command is supported, 1 otherwise.
rm_conffile <conffile> [<last-version> [<package>]]
Remove obsolete conffile. Must be called in preinst, postinst and
postrm.
mv_conffile <old-conf> <new-conf> [<last-version> [<package>]]
Rename a conffile. Must be called in preinst, postinst and postrm.
help
Display this usage information.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hashcat-utils_1.2-0kali1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: command dir_to_symlink is unknown
Hint: upgrading dpkg to a newer version might help.
Usage: dpkg-maintscript-helper <command> <parameter>... -- <maintainer-script-parameter>...
Commands:
supports <command>
Returns 0 (success) if the given command is supported, 1 otherwise.
rm_conffile <conffile> [<last-version> [<package>]]
Remove obsolete conffile. Must be called in preinst, postinst and
postrm.
mv_conffile <old-conf> <new-conf> [<last-version> [<package>]]
Rename a conffile. Must be called in preinst, postinst and postrm.
help
Display this usage information.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/hashcat-utils_1.2-0kali1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@TE:~#
Any idea on what is happening here? Thanks.
RE: Hashcat upgrade issue - epixoip - 11-01-2016
This is a The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali) issue, not a Hashcat issue.