Monday, December 16, 2013

Security oriented Distro Kali Linux Header Installation Issues

So this is rather going to be short.

Many people especially in the forums have been nagging about the custom kernel on Kali Linux and how to install the kernel headers that come with the new security distro [currently at time of publish 1.0.5] and the header being 3.7-trunk-amd64, this kernel has a patch that allows packet injection hence another method i used by upgrading the kernel to 3.8.x worked for installing headers required for VMware/Virtual Box installation but i couldn't work on the wireless network security/pentest.

So here we go, first thing you will need to edit your sources list that is if they dont have this:

deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-dev main contrib non-free

deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free

deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

sometimes after doing this and trying an update (apt-get update) you might get an exception that

E: Type 'deb[arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] ' is not known on line..... in source list /etc/apt.......
kindly eliminate the [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] from everywhere it appears and try again .... this will work most of the time.
ok then ..... here are a few commands to kick in that virtual appliance NB.... this is before installing the virtual appliance

echo cups enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
echo vmware-tools enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r) 

and voila.... this works ...well for me ... i hope it does for you too :)

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