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@jesusprubio could you give us some error output perhaps? is it unable to install apt-transport-https, what's the error with lsb_release? Perhaps Kali is too far from its Debian roots to be compatible with our Debian-style installer?

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I'm not a Kali developer so I can't help you in that sense :(, but I suppose that it could be the problem. Here there's a picture with what you're asking for:

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it looks like you're simply out of memory and it can't install apt-transport-https. cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total' and see how muchMemTotalandSwapTotal` you have.

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Sure, my fault, I'm running the Live mode in a VM, solved with a bit more memory. Now the problem is the incorrect output to lsb_release. I could fix it forcing the "DISTRO" var to "wheezy" but I don't know the correct way to implement this exception. I would like to make a pull request since some users of my project (https://github.com/jesusprubio/bluebox-ng) are having problems to install it and I prefer to suggest them this solution to keep Node.js updated. Any idea? Thanks :)

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That n/a is pretty unhelpful! Not sure what we can do about that.

You could always just do this manually, here's the steps:

Add GPG key:

curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -

Set up repo:

echo 'deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node wheezy main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
echo 'deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node wheezy main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

Then apt-get update && apt-get install nodejs

I'm taking a guess here that Kali is based on Wheezy, it should be a lowest common denominator anyway, so cross your fingers and give it a go.

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Yes, it works. Thanks anyway, it's not your script fault and I could provide the users with another script. I will reference this project anyway as the the default, except for Kali. :)

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I've run into this with Kali before:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux Kali Linux 1.0
Release:    Kali Linux 1.0
Codename:   n/a

Might be worth asking the Kali team to start tagging their releases with codenames to conform to lsb spec.

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Yep, I'll try for sure. :)

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we're listing manual instructions on the readme now that should be helpful for situations like this

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