What have you tried: Lurking other forums and applying related commands
What is the error: Broken apt, DPKG unmet dependency, xfce panel error GDBus
What device is this on: Old Dell Desktop set up for multi boot and mass storage
So as you can see I’m in a pickle, I’m in the learning phase and haven’t really had a chance to learn Debian in a way that is comfortable and at my own pace. I’ve been kinda getting thrown around randomly by bugs/errors or just lack of knowledge and experience for the last month playing around with xfce desktop environment. I’m at the stage right now where apt is broken but the 2 errors that initiated me playing around with xfce and synaptic that probably caused apt to brake have dissapeared ironically.
I’ve downloaded the 2024 Debian reference guide pdf 270 pages and it’s helping but it’s very dense for me to understand right now. I’m not giving up I just need something different.
What generalized literature or media do you guys suggest for beginner?
And also if someone can point me in a direction where I can understand what’s going on with these dependency errors Id much appreciate that.
Kali, like other Linux distro’s is a free OS so the first thing I’d do as a new user, is to just reinstall it fresh from an ISO image.
once installed, open a terminal and type;
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
you’ll have a fully updated system ready to go. Start with tutorials about the terminal and moving about, creating files etc, loads of starting with Linux stuff on the web, hack the box is good to start with hacking.
Kali uses a slightly customised version of XFCE and there are tools built into the OS to change its look if that is what you want, look under system settings.
I still have my installation DVD and I’ve installed Kali a couple of times I still have Kali 2023 on one of my hard disk. I installed that Kali on the year of that installation DVD’s release been a good long while. As it stands now can’t just migrate over because I got locked out of it shortly after installation because I was interrupted and lost my physical documents on that installation I just never got around to trouble shooting it and I don’t know if it can be trouble shooted.
I wonder if I can retrieve that installation using the installation DVD as a live CD I would have to bypass user/pass word prompt and make a new user and password or at least that is what Id like to do. That system has very little use I think the only thing I did was install it and if I remember correctly it took me like 3-4 hrs to install Kali rolling, full update/full upgrade.
Is it possible that I could have avoided this unmet dependency problem and many other problems using Timeshift?
Kali is a rolling release model so if your using such an old ISO image there will have been many changes, and updating issues are going to crop up, even if you did a fresh install.
You can download the latest release ISO or other image from here;
hey Money I would download a live boot image onto a USB thumb stick and configure it for persistent storage then just boot to it. I have run Kali from a USB stick for years and its the best light weight option with a little better functionality than say wsl or a vm. Is there a reason you cant use a cloud based instance use wsl or remote desktop or ssh from a windows OS? Anyway run it live from a usb device my dude.
Downloaded it last night and gonna wait a little, while I debate in my mind and research which file system and security features I’m going to set this up with. I know Kali has allot of options for installation an I was in choice overload fatigue the last time I installed it. I want to take advantage of the fact I have plenty of recycled drives and keep in mind that they are in various states of use and age so can burn out any day without warning.
Also since I can’t use apt to install Brasero what’s the deal with Xfburn? That’s the only CD burning program I have access to right now, that i can see…
I don’t have a windows computer for WSL and I would of created a usb bootable if i hadn’t gone through stuff like sd card reader that couldn’t mount or communicate with linux but I’ve found a replacement just recently. Right now it’s mostly SD cards i have only 1 4G thumb drive that’s for emergency documents and I use to have plenty of drives more than i need but they disappeared. So yeah I have portable storage but i have some issues with that, im going to post a separate thread im having corruption issues brought on by Android use.
You can use Balena Etcher to put the ISO image onto a USB stick or SD card and it will be bootable;
If you want to create a Live boot ISO with persistence, have a read of the official docs (you can create persistence on an SD card the same as you would for a USB drive)