msfconsole run error – Could not find rake-10.4.2 in any of the sources

I make this post in the hope it will help someone else.  After installing Kali linux on a Raspberry Pi I attempted to run msfconsole only to be given the error message:

Could not find rake-10.4.2 in any of the sources
Run `bundle install` to install missing gems.

It has taken me most of the day to find out what is going on here.  After a lot of googling for the answer (and finding that a lot of people were having the exact same problem) I was still no further forward.

I even attempted to “apt-get remove metasploit-framework” followed by “apt-get install kali-linux-all” to attempt to correct any missing dependencies or mis-configurations.

It was by pure chance that I finally got it to work and the solution was a simple one – so simple I could kick myself.  Yet, everywhere I went online I found people with the exact same problem and no one could work it out.

Here, in all its technical glory is the solution:

cd /usr/share/metasploit-framework/            <—- it’s this bit everyone is missing!!!!!!!!!

bundle install

You need to be in the metasploit directory for the bundle install to complete, and suddenly rake is found too!

If you is in china ! the following should be done!

modify the Gemfile file，switch  https://rubygems.org into  http://ruby.taobao.org