Crthuky

I am having some issues installing powershell to my kali linux machine. I am following this guide:

https://www.kali.org/tutorials/installing-powershell-on-kali-linux/

apt update && apt -y install curl gnupg apt-transport-https

Next, we need to download and add the public repository GPG key so APT will trust the packages and alert you to any issues with package signatures.

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -

With the GPG key added, we proceed to add the Microsoft package repository to its own package list file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and update the list of available packages.

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/microsoft-debian-stretch-prod stretch main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/powershell.list
apt update

Everything works properly, my update, microsoft sources are in my source.list and everything should be good to go.

When I execute:

apt -y install powershell

I get:

root@kali:/opt# apt -y install powershell
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package powershell 

I can't figure out why and there's not many docs or articles leading to why.

Please help!

You have successfully added the repository for Powershell to your sources.list.

However, you report to be using a 32-bit architecture system. Your output of apt-cache confirms that your Repositories do not contain the Powershell package.

Taking a look at the Powershell GitHub, it appears that Microsoft does not provide a Linux package for Powershell for 32-bit Linux systems. All of the source and binary packages available for Linux here are for 64-bit systems. If you are familiar with building from source, you could potentially build a 32-bit package, but that is a different kind of question and may not actually work if 64-bit Powershell has hard dependencies on specific 64-bit instructions.