Experiences with Building KDE Kali x86

[charonsecurity]

Hi All.
So I built the KDE x86 Version of Kali using the Documentation within the Kali environment. I have also uploaded a torrent for those who wish to just grab it instead of doing it them selves. With that I would like to share some of the issues and solutions I have come across.

The build goes nicely. Installing to a USB via win32disk imager also goes nicely. Being able to boot from the USB works well. After this, from the Official Gnome Release compared to the build, we run into some issues. The most glaring is networking appears to be disabled on the live USB. However, I haven't really played with the LiveUSB and decided to directly install it to my system (Dual Booting with Windows 7).

Once installed, wired networking is working. However, there is no GUI option for connecting to wireless network.
First some prerequisites: Star off using a wired connection.
The Sources.list must be updated, as the build only includes one entry oO. Use this page for a guide. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Kali
Then apt-get update and upgrade as necessary.
From there everything becomes easier.

To get wireless working I used Wicd:
apt-get install wicd

Also my sound was muted and had no volume control:
apt-get install kmix

Firefox was missing:
apt-get install iceweasel (Firefox clone with debian support - works, looks, and acts like firefox minus the copyrighted logos)
or
through the synaptic gui search for firefox, and iceweasel will come up

Flash was missing:
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

The package manager was missing:
apt-get install synaptic

I suppose everything after is just cosmetic and up to the user as to how they would like to customize the feel and look.

I hope this is useful to someone Enjoy!

[charonsecurity]

Hi All.
So a few more updates. I have noticed that Bluetooth was also not working correctly. Took me a while to figure out how to get it fixed and working, though it may be my system specific.
So first I had to install Bluetooth (which was missing some packages) ... Actually lets backtrack a bit to show the steps I took for troubleshooting. (hint: syslog helps very much)

First I ran "rfkill list" to insure there were no blocks.

1: samsung-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Two things I learned, Kali detects my bluetooth and there are no blocks in place. Good.
So I run the code, "/etc/init.d/bluetooth status" and got the output failed. So I then run the code, "/etc/init.d/bluetooth start" and got a response that bluetooth is now started.
However, I did not see the bluetooth icon I was expecting in the task manager.

So, "apt-get install bluetooth" this installed a bunch of packages that were missing. Still no icon, then I had to, "apt-get install bluedevil". Finally able to get the GUI Icon I've been looking for. From there I was able to find my Device (an android phone) and successfully pair with it. Unfortunately I was not able to send or receive files. The Syslog kept showing what errors, but nothing straight forward as how to repair or fix the situation. Had to use my good friend Google, Not exactly sure where I found the fix, (cause I looked at so many pages) but in short, this is what I had to do to get it working properly:

1. edit /etc/bluetooth/main.conf ---> and add

DisablePlugins=pnat

to disable the plugin. (Apparently this has caused many problems for others, though not sure if it is necessary to add or not.)

2. in a terminal use the following commands:

touch /etc/bluetooth/link_key
chmod 644 /etc/bluetooth/link_key
/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

After that did a reboot of the machine, and now bluetooth is working properly. From their I added it to the startup scripts (optional) as if not you will have to issue the command to start it manually.

[anashlali]

nice work man.

[Nik@S_DaRk]

litle help for my frends here is what to do: to create a iso for kali linux 64 bit kde:

apt-get update
apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git

gedit config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
and delete everything after:


# Graphical desktops depending on the architecture
#
# You can replace all the remaining lines with a list of the
# packages required to install your preferred graphical desktop
# or you can just comment everything except the packages of your
# preferred desktop.

and add instead replace it with

# KDE
kali-defaults
kali-root-login
desktop-base
kde-plasma-desktop
kde-full
kdm
wicd-kde

then

cd live-build-config
lb config --architecture amd64
sudo lb build



thks and good luck!!!

just love kali linux!!!!

[CodeCompiler]

Tnx for a KDE version

[airwolf3000]

Everything its working at my side, after following your advice.

I am not wired connected, just wireless, it took a little time but I was able to get my connection set, before downloaing the wicd:
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxxx (your router's wifi essid)
iwconfig wlan0 channel xx (the channel of Wifi tx)
iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxx (your key )
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient wlan0

Thanks charonsecurty

[wernerml]

thanks for the making me do this too! (I was afraid that nobody would post a successfull build in here)

I'm simply AMAZED, it's SO MUCH BETTER than that simplist Gnome little thing...
I'm setting up everything for 2 days now, it's getting BEAUTIFUL!!!!

I'm gonna try to install NetworkManager wireless "plugin/tool/taskbar-plugin"??? don't really know what I'll have to install...
(I really HATE wicd...)

latter i'll post the result here!

Edit: (I made the x64 build)

[Nik@S_DaRk]

and here is the MATE version of kali linux
kali linux 64 bit mate:


echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config
mkdir config/archives
echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" > config/archives/mate.list.binary
echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" > config/archives/mate.list.chroot
cp /usr/share/keyrings/mate-archive-keyring.gpg config/archives/mate.key.binary
cp /usr/share/keyrings/mate-archive-keyring.gpg config/archives/mate.key.chroot
echo "sleep 20" >> config/hooks/z_sleep.chroot


gedit config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
delete everything after:


# Graphical desktops depending on the architecture
#
# You can replace all the remaining lines with a list of the
# packages required to install your preferred graphical desktop
# or you can just comment everything except the packages of your
# preferred desktop.

and add instead replace it with

# MATE
xorg
mate-archive-keyring
mate-core
mate-desktop-environment

and then

lb config --architecture amd64 or --architecture i386
sudo lb build

[airwolf3000]

If anybody it's interested in Xfce-4 version i386, amd64 and nonPae:

Check samiux's post at:

http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...Xfce-4-Desktop

[twindragon6]

and here is the MATE version of kali linux
kali linux 64 bit mate:


echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config
mkdir config/archives
echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" > config/archives/mate.list.binary
echo "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/debian wheezy main" > config/archives/mate.list.chroot
cp /usr/share/keyrings/mate-archive-keyring.gpg config/archives/mate.key.binary
cp /usr/share/keyrings/mate-archive-keyring.gpg config/archives/mate.key.chroot
echo "sleep 20" >> config/hooks/z_sleep.chroot


gedit config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot
delete everything after:


# Graphical desktops depending on the architecture
#
# You can replace all the remaining lines with a list of the
# packages required to install your preferred graphical desktop
# or you can just comment everything except the packages of your
# preferred desktop.

and add instead replace it with

# MATE
xorg
mate-archive-keyring
mate-core
mate-desktop-environment

and then

lb config --architecture amd64 or --architecture i386
sudo lb build

Is there a way to make an Icewm build?