This is an advanced tutorial on how to sucessfully mix kali and jessie repos, it assumes the reader has quite a detailed knowlege
of apt dpkg and aptitude, if you are not fully versed in debian package management please do not read on.
Kali is wheezy with a quite extensive git overlay, our mission in this tutorial is to bring some of the packages to jessie versions
WITHOUT affecting any of the functionality of the installed kali git packages.
A tall order ?, well yes!
why ?
cos i can
No but seariously, if you are just interested in pentesting alone then there is very little point in doing this,
keep kali as standard as possible, then at least you can garantee that none of the kali packages will bresk.
I on the other hand also need my linux box for c/c++ , android dev, working on a chroot of archlinux, and i would like to run the latest versions
of cinnamon ( 1.9 in the git ) and compiz (0.9.10 from ubuntu saucy ), for all of these one really needs a lot of the newer binaries available in jessie.
Updating kali ...................
1) go here http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ and sort yourself a local debian jessie ( unstable ) sources.list entry
2) fire up aptitude, do a <ctrl - t> < u > to update, you will have a list of upgradable packages at the top
3) go to the admin section and start there, update all the "base" linux packages, if you dont know what "base" means have a look here http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/.../packages.html
that should give you a good idea of what "base" packages are all about
4) when you get to a package and a red bar comes up at the bottom you have hit a package conflict hit < e > to examin the conflict < . > and < , > navigate you through possible resolutions
pick the correct resolution and proceed to the next package, in that way update all the base packages
5) now update all the gnome components to 3.8
6) now the xserver stack and messa stack
7) now admin section
8) now python and associated plugins
9) DO NOT update anything that mentions networks in any way ( kerbos, apache etc etc ) in fact avoid the whole internet section
10) DO NOT update ANYTHING perl or perl related
11) DO NOT update anything with "kali" in the version name
12 ) update the rest paying close attention to steps 9 10 and 11
13) then use aaa-kali-pkg-check from my toolset to check you have not accidently upgraded something you should not have.
tools......
this is a bunch of scripts i developed to make life easier
aaa-kali-pkg-check....... no arguments............ checks all installed packages for alternate kali versions ( those with kali in the version string ) then interactivly lets you downgrade to the correct version
( pretty proud of that one developed it myself from scratch )
aaa-get-build-deps....... optional argument <package name> .... <package name> ....... checks for and interactivly install build deps for LOCAL ie on hd, debian package,
so you can install all deps for example git versions of deb packages. Since its designed for kali/unstable mix its very conservative about
package installation with lots of checks.
aaa-build-cinnamon.........no arguments....... this one downloads all the cinnamon components from git, checks for and installs build deps, builds all the packages and installs them in order,
it can be used to install or update cinnamon git, currently icinnamon-git is at 1.9 and F***in beautiful, it is what i am writing on now. ( on a kali-jessie box obviously )
It also applies a patch i developed for nemo, that removes the annoying " you are running as root" warning at the bottom
copy all the scripts to /usr/bin , make em all executable
copy dir aaa to /usr/share ( thats where the patch is )
everything should work
to come.....
compiz 0.9.10
edit........ cuda 5 already covered in another post
