XFCE and Chromium on Kali Linux

[The Forgotten King]

Hi. Kind of new to Kali. Been using it for a week.

So I use XFCE because I have an old computer, but Kali comes with Gnome. Trying to add PPAs and doing apt-get install xfce4 and all of its components just gives me the error message that the sources might be missing or outdated. When I try to install from the .deb file it gives me errors. Does anyone know how to install xfce4?

And Chromium. I use it but I can't find out how to install it. I can't seem to use add-apt repository. Anyone know how to use this command or add repositories somehow else?

[DaKahuna]

According to what I have been able to find so far, the only way to get the XFCE desktop in Kali Rolling is to start with the Kali Light, which uses XFCE by default. Once you have that installed you can install all the full packages by running the apt-get install kali-linux-full.

[DaKahuna]

Well, after some further research, it appears you can change from the GNOME to XFCE4 desktop on the full version. Here is how I went about it.

1. Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to contain:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
# For source package access, uncomment the following line
# deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

2. run apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade

3. run apt-get install kali-defaults kali-root-login desktop-base xfce4 xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-goodies

4. run update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
select xfce4 as your interface.

5. reboot

to install the Chrome Web Brower (after doing all the above)

run apt-get install chromdriver

Chrome Web Brower will appear in the Internet menu.