Kali 1.10 how to keep updates still running

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Many people upgraded their kali to the new jessie version (8) to keep updates running , but there is a way to receive updates on the most critical parts of the wheezy (7)distribution of kali operating system .
What will happen is that you will not receive the new tools , or updates to the tools you have installed in your kali from the old repository .
There are multiple possibilities to bypass this , but all of them must be done manually .
1st of all i have serious doubts that most users in kali use more than 6 or 7 tools in the whole OS .
So , how to receive updates to your old kali wheezy .

edit your sources.list and add the debian7 repositories :

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add the follow repositories :

#old Kali 1.1.0 Repo
deb http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib
deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali moto main non-free contrib
deb http://old.kali.org/kali-security moto main non-free contrib
deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali-security moto main non-free contrib
#Debian Backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

###### Debian Main Repos
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

###### Debian Update Repos
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

This way you will continue to receive critical updates to the OS only .

For the tools :

Now here enters the manual stuff .
To know the new tools arriving , you should check kali.bugs website , is where people post the bugs they found in the new kali versions , and there is also where people post new tools suggestions to next update of kali .
https://bugs.kali.org/view_all_bug_page.php

You should find in the category of the page "New tools request" .
If you find any tool that you may like then open that page and look for the github link or webpage to download the tool .
Example :



Note : Check the dependencies of the tool that you will run or compile if you have them , if a specific tool needs some new version of anything that is not in repositories of debian 7 then you should look for it on google or on github , and then compile it .
Check also this website for new tools : http://www.kitploit.com/

and packetstorm website : https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/tags/tool/

and there are many others , just google it .

For tools that you already have in your system you should check the github repository of that tool and clone it .

Update :

Many people believe that some tools from other linux distributions were made specifically to work on that specific distributions , a good example is Arch Linux witch works differently than Debian distributions .
That is wrong , any tool can work in any linux distribution as a long as you compile it .

Example : Blackarch Linux
When you go to blackarch tool list you will find thousands of tools in their repository :
https://blackarch.org/tools.html

An advice , if an Linux OS have more tools than other it does not mean that is better in any circumstance .

If you find some tool you like or need to use but is not on kali repository , follow the autor link and download it .
Example :

against 0.2 : A very fast ssh attacking script which includes a multithreaded port scanning module (tcp connect) for discovering possible targets and a multithreaded brute-forcing module which attacks parallel all discovered hosts or given ip addresses from a list.

Download link : http://nullsecurity.net/tools/cracker.html



Navigating thru nullsecurity website i found another cool tool on the "Tools/DOS" menu

dnsdrdos.c
The file was written in C code , but it need to be compiled .

How to do it :
1st - Download it using wget command
2nd - compile it using gcc
3rd - execute it .


Back to Old Kali 1.1.0 Wheezy

To update your Old kali :

Just do the same thing as you always did :

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

or

apt-get dist-upgrade

Major Note : I have here multiples computers with multiples kali distributions , from the 1.10 to sana 3.0 , i just wrote this thread to those who want to stick for a while more in wheezy distribution before debian shut it down .