u/jackmclrtz

No more sawfish?

I have build scripts to build my kali box out the same way every time.

I just deployed a new one, but the build scripts failed. Reason: sawfish package does not exist.

This worked on my last kali deploy. The sources.list from both boxes are identical:

# This system was installed using removable media.

# The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end

# of the installation process by preseed.

# For information about how to configure apt package sources,

# see the sources.list(5) manual.

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

On my existing kali box that I have been running a few months, sawfish installed during build just fine:

kali03 ~ [5] # dpkg -l | fgrep sawfish

ii sawfish 1:1.11.90-1.2+b1 amd64 window manager for X11

ii sawfish-data 1:1.11.90-1.2 all sawfish architecture independent dat

But on the new one...

kali01 ~ [5] # apt-get install sawfish

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Package sawfish 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 'sawfish' has no installation candidate

I pulled down all of the Packages file for the various kali repos, and none of them have sawfish.

Was this removed in the last couple of months? If so, why? Anyone know how to install it? I tried pulling the packages from the cache on my working box, but the dependencies are no longer valid...

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u/jackmclrtz — 14 hours ago