Kali install 2025

  • Install List
  • Brave
  • Do things
  • QEMU
  • Printer (ecotank)
  • Bitwig



INSTALL LIST

(Used the same code from 2023 https://tttthis.com/blog/kali-install-2-in-2024 and 2024 https://tttthis.com/blog/kali-install-3-2024 .)

sudo apt-get install hydrogen shotwell gnome-disk-utility gimp shotwell vokoscreen libreoffice inkscape secure-delete imagemagick fonts-indic fonts-thai-tlwg xinput cherrytree gdebi gdebi-core clamav clamtk gnome-system-monitor system-config-printer cups font-manager && sudo systemctl enable cups 

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BRAVE BROWSER

sudo apt install apt-transport-https curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

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DO THINGS

  • Time zone: cuba, or Latin American countries are listed like 'Americas/CountryName'
  • Power Manager (otherwise it will dim after 120seconds): Keep screen from locking:
  • Top-left menu > Settings > Power Manager > (fourth tab) Security > Automatically lock: Never, and uncheck []Lock screen when system is going to sleep
  • in Power Settings, you have to click the top buttons for ‘plugged in’ and ‘on battery’ and do both
  • Menu > Keyboard > Layout, unlock the Default settings and +add Spanish, and set a ‘Change layout option.' I selected Ctrl-shift to change language input
  • Disable login screen. Didn't find a way.

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INSTALL QEMU ON KALI

https://www.kali.org/docs/virtualization/install-qemu-guest-vm/

sudo apt update && sudo apt install virt-manager -y

Then (on next boot, although everything works on current session), maybe you get an Error starting domain. Requested operation is not valied. Network ‘default’ is not active.

(To fix do in Terminal

sudo virsh net-start default

But) to ensure ‘default’ starts after system reboot, do

sudo virsh net-autostart default  

QEMU SHARED FOLDERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7_isunZA8 or his blog https://absprog.com/post/qemu-kvm-shared-folder

  • First, in Terminal (in Host)
sudo apt install virtiofsd
  • Turn off the VM
  • Memory > (check) Enable Shared Memory
  • Click Add Hardware > Filesystem. Driver: Virtiofs. Browse the folder on the Host Machine. Target Path: any name, it's just a label, and we'll pick ‘WhatYouCalledIt’
  • Click ‘Finish’.
  • Open the VM.
  • Mount the shared folder inside the VM.
    1. First create a mount point anywhere. Just make a folder wherever you want it to be in the VM.
    2. Open /etc/fstab
    3. Add the following line at the end of that file:

WhatYouCalledIt /home/your_username/shared_folder(or whatever the folder is called in the VM, this is inside the VM) virtiofs defaults 0 0

  1. Then either reboot or do ‘sudo mount -a’

Example: SsharedFoldsRandomName /home/kali/SharedFolds/ virtiofs defaults 0 0

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INSTALL PRINTER ON KALI (Ecotank L3250 (L3210 was similar and I put instructions on tttthis)

In the 'LINUX INSTALL 2025' folder, use gdebi to install lsb-compat_9.20161125_amd64 (hard to find online) and either both or one of epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.8.6-1_amd64.deb and epson-printer-utility_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb

Then click the Dragon > Printer, and add the printer (Generic or Epson? I did both in the mess of this install)

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INSTALL BITWIG

https://tttthis.com/blog/kali-install-3-2024

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How to clone a harddrive (with Clonezilla)

The clonezilla software https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php is about 500mb now. I have an old version which was like 250mb or something.

You write this like any .iso to a flash drive and stick it in the machine you want to clone the harddrive from, and also plug in the harddrive you want to clone to. Note size is big enough.

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Yt-dlp commands

To download a single video or a playlist as mp3

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/etcetcetcetc

yt-dlp playlist

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --ppa "EmbedThumbnail+ffmpeg_o:-c:v mjpeg -vf crop=\"'if(gt(ih,iw),iw,ih)':'if(gt(iw,ih),ih,iw)'\"" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "PLAYLIST_URL"

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INSTALL OsTIrus (dsp56300 software) on Windows7 (didn't work for me)

For this software (2 things actually) to work, it seems (from successfully installing on Linux with Wine for the Virus software), you need to install the Virus software (anywhere) and then either install the OsTIrus vst or just put the vst in the right folder and find it inside BItwig (I already had it in that folder, so even though I did install it from anther deb, maybe I didn't need to).

Then you go into the Program Files/Access Music/Virus TI/Common folder and copy the firmware.bin file and paste it beside the OsTIrus vst you're finding in Bitwig. Then it will work (ie it worked before, the vst loaded before, but it didn't have any sounds, and now it should have all the TI sounds. I guess the firmware.bin directs it to find where all that is on your harddrive?

You can read the next post here to see how I got it to work on AVlinux.

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INSTALL OsTIrus (dsp56300 software) on Linux

On Linux (AVlinux or any linux with Wine, which is required not for the OsTIrus emulator (which comes as a linux VST3 as well as a Windows one (but I couldn't get the WIndows VST3 nor VST2 to work on Windows7, despite serious effort and GPT style trying), but for the virus.info software, which carries all the TI sounds.

  1. Download the Windows 64 bit software from https://www.virus.info/downloads
  2. Download the linux VST3 from https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/ostirus-downloads/
  3. Open Terminal in AVlinux and type wine uninstaller
  4. When the Wine installer/uninstaller opens, add something, and find your .msi file from virus.info and install it (it will open the Virus installer and you go through the steps, where you can deselect the 32bit version from the install list, and also you can just click OK when it tries to search for a hardware AV (not sure if it just connects automatically or you need to reinstall if/when you connect the hardware AV).
  5. Install your .deb file from dsp... (However, I'm not sure if you need to do this. I did it this time, but I already had the vst in my VSTs for Bitwig folder, and it already opened fine (just didn't have any sounds). ... Anyway, you get to the point where the OsTIrus vst will open in Bitwig.
  6. Go into user/.wine/driveC/program Files/Access Music/Virus TI/Common and copy the firmware.bin file and paste that into the VSTs for Bitwig folder (it has to be beside the OsTIrus vst (I actually don't know which particular file this is but in Bitwig it appears in the VSTs for Bitwig main folder so I pasted it there and it worked).
  7. Reload OsTIrus in Bitwig and it should have all the sounds now.
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