Missing libappindicator1

Question

So I wanted to install Google Chrome on My Kali Linux Distro and it appeared that I miss libappindicator1 which Chrome is dependent of. So I tried to install the package and it says:

Package libappindicator1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'libappindicator1' has no installation candidate

I entered the following command:

apt-cache search libappindcator1

But got no response. Coming to conclusion that the package isn't even there.

How do I install it?

Additional info: The contents of my sources.list in /etc/apt:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150312-18:43]/ kali contrib main non-free

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386
LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20150312-18:43]/ kali contrib main non-free

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

Solution 1

After getting that error, run command:

apt-get -f install 

And it installs.. why? I don't know.

https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?22243-Google-chrome-not-installing-properly/page2

Solution 2

I ended up here trying to install Signal, here's what worked for me:

Package was removed from Kali repositories You will need to manually install the missing packages. First check your CPU architecture to find out what binary you'll need

$ lscpu | grep Architecture
Architecture:                    x86_64

So for my case it's amd64, you can find other versions there too. https://pkgs.org/download/libappindicator1 https://pkgs.org/download/libindicator7

curl -p --insecure "http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libappindicator/libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb" --output libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb
curl -p --insecure "http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libindicator/libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb" --output libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg --install libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install libdbusmenu-gtk4
sudo dpkg --install libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb

Then you should be able to follow the steps on the Signal wiki.

Comments

[taliezin]

Can you edit you question with your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

[Chari]

I will, Let me boot into kali

[cossacksman]

What is this sorcery?! It works but I really want to know why..

[harperville]

From man page: -f Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. fwiw I ran it but it did not do the trick for me. All it told me was the before-seen The following programs were automatically installed and are no longer required message. Ran apt autoremove as suggested. Re-ran my 1Password Linux installer (the thing/activity that is requiring libappindicator1) and it failed again. Now looking at Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages...

[Marcin]

Thanks, I was having dependency issue with libappindicator1 while installing Discord on my Kali Linux 2021.2. Your way helps me a lot.

[Oleg Abrazhaev]

solved same way on debian. curl -p --insecure "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libappindica‌​tor/libappindicator1‌​_0.4.92-7_amd64.deb" --output libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb \ && curl -p --insecure "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libindicator‌​/libindicator7_0.5.0‌​-4_amd64.deb" --output libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb \ && dpkg -i libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb \ && dpkg -i libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb \ && rm libindicator7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb \ && rm libappindicator1_0.4.92-8_amd64.deb