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Install Slack desktop app on Kali rolling fixing libappindicator3-1 missing dependency

If you try to install Slack desktop app on Kali linux latest rolling as of May 2021, you face a missing dependency of libappindicator3-1 which makes it complicated to get the app installed.

You can force the install with :

dpkg -i –force-depends slack-desktop-4.15.0-amd64.deb

But then when you run an apt update and apt upgrade, you have dependency issue with the same libappindicator.

Dirty workaround is go and edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove libappindicator3-1 from the package dependency, then you can apt update and apt upgrade without getting slack removed.

Finally so as you know, libappindicator3-1 have been replaced in kali by libayatana-appindicator ( https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/issues/504 )

I hope that it will help you.

Have a good day. I hope this helps.