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30 December 2021

Kali Linux (including AnyDesk)

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Note: sometimes a new install connects to your wifi, but there is no internet service. So (sometimes the last 3 steps don't work or are not required):

If you intend to have VirtualBox Oracle (VirtualBox is increasingly hard to install on Debian, but don't forget, there are FOSS Alternatives. VirtualBox is not the only VM software.) on the computer, you may want to do that now, since it's the only bitch to install. Should you use install virtualbox-dkms (or will that just not work)? Should you download from their website, and if so, which version (there are lots of issues reported with varios OSs and various VirtualBox editions)?

VERIFYING download is not difficult. Download it, then click on the ‘sum’ thing on the download element to see the SHA256 checksum. That number should match the number you get when you cd Downloads and:

THINGS

SECONDARY THINGS

INSTALL (already has Gparted, good text editors, Screenshot, Python, and something like Task Manager. Does not have snapd, audacity or VLC so no need to remove them).

CHERRY TREE

OTHER PRINTER INSTRUCTIONS (not sure if the above replaces this):

OTHER THING ON FONTS

BROWSER

yes | 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

Or

VM

SALAMANDER PRO (Piano)

HTTrack (for downloading entire websites for offline reading)

ANYDESK

YT_DLP (youtube-dl didn't work for me last time)

For mp3:

For playlist:

Virtualbox can be installed with apt install, but produces an error

Next time, try virtualbox-dkms first and see if that works

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

But this doesn't work. Sudo apt upgrade it.

other

sudo apt install qbittorrent

Before you start, you will need:
-Accounts info, to log into Bitwig, to log into any SMs in VMs (jam5, b...1,)
-Don't delete old hard drive until test that Printers work, VMs work (including Guest Additions shared folder),
-Don't delete the old hard drive SSD until you've tried out banking, social media)


KALI INSTALL 2023
- Don't install VirtualBox it doesn't work anymore on Debian usually. Use Qemu (foss). Actually Qemu sucks I had to use VirtualBox again. 
- AnyDesk doesn't work in Kali, but does work on an OS installed on a VM

After installing Kali (and verifying), internet might connect but not work. Do: 

systemctl enable systemd-networkd
systemctl enable systemd-resolved
systemctl start systemd-networkd
systemctl start systemd-resolved

UPDATES AND INSTALLS
Takes a few minutes ... meanwhile do the setup things which follow

(Kali already has Gparted, good text editors, Screenshot, Python, and Task Manager Does not have snapd, audacity or VLC so no need to remove them). It also already has vim so you can write bash scripts with .sh suffix. It doesn't have nano.

sudo apt-get install hydrogen gimp gnome-disk-utility 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

(note that some things might and require dependencies and then retry, like gdebi/gdebi-core)

(xinput allows you to disable touchscreen and other things)

(graphical gdebi is gdebi-gtk. I don't know if this note is needed)

(kdenlive is better as an appimage because they do updated versions which don't work (freeze upon render). Don't use new versions, either, although they do have some effects. 19.04 works but rendered images just all white for me last time, so I used version 17 (there's still other version 20s I didn't try yet), and can be downloaded from videohelp, although check it for malware. Kdenlive doesn't offer old versions on their site.)


Set-upNote: sometimes a new install connects to your wifi, but there is no internet service. So (sometimes the last 3 steps don't work or are not required):

    systemctl enable systemd-networkd
    systemctl enable systemd-resolved
    systemctl start systemd-networkd
    systemctl start systemd-resolved
    ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
    service resolvconf restart
    service network-manager restart

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(NOTE on VMs: I couldn't get Qemu to work nice (screens wouldn't resize, VMs would time out then not boot again, etc, so I went back to VirtualBox)
If you intend to have VirtualBox Oracle (VirtualBox is increasingly hard to install on Debian, but don't forget, there are FOSS Alternatives. VirtualBox is not the only VM software.) on the computer, you may want to do that now, since it's the only bitch to install. Should you use install virtualbox-dkms (or will that just not work)? Should you download from their website, and if so, which version (there are lots of issues reported with varios OSs and various VirtualBox editions)? I have an Install Qemu Virtual Manager on Kali .txt document here, if you want to try Qemu again.)

Verifying download is not difficult. Download it, then click on the ‘sum’ thing on the download element to see the SHA256 checksum. That number should match the number you get when you cd Downloads and:

    shasum -a 256 kali-linux-2022.1-live-i386.iso
    (or whatever your download is called)
    it takes a few seconds to retrieve the number in Terminal.
    https://www.kali.org/docs/introduction/download-official-kali-linux-images/

(after installing the Epson ecotank it was set to the wrong model and missed magenta lines. I double-clicked the printer in Print Settings and selected the actual model and it worked then, but not on ‘regular paper’ setting)

Virtualbox Oracle install: 

virtualbox-dkms

and reboot (if necessary. Maybe you can just use the program without rebooting). 

If you get an error that ends in (initramfs) in the VM when it boots, type 
(initramfs) fsck /dev/sda1 -y
(the -y means you won't have to type y a hundred times.)
... or ... /sdaX

Sometimes gives ‘modprobe vboxdrv’ error. 
(Troubleshooting if stuff doesn't work: upgrade virtualbox-dkms took a long time and didn't make it work. Same ‘modprobe vboxdrv’ error. 
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot)

THINGS TO DO
Would be nice to make as a script

Time zone: cuba, or Latin American countries are listed like 'America/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.

SECONDARY THINGS
Would be nice to have a script for this too

For fonts, just put a folder with them in home/username/.local/share/fonts
     Kali has a bunch in user/share/fonts. You can delete some (I'm not sure which ones you can delete without losing render ability. But I deleted the Noto folder (so many fonts), roboto, and some others. I had to change the fonts in CherryTree after (File > Freferences > Fonts) urw-base35 is the one used by LibreOffice (and maybe CherryTree also). Spanish fonts: Antic, Aquiline.
     Hindi fonts won't display unless you sudo apt-get install fonts-indic
     Garamond font for book printing
     .fonts in home directory acts like a place to find fonts
     /usr/share/fonts is where pre-installed system fonts are (maybe don't delete these)
     Or find your font location by opening Font Manager and R-click > Open location
Make shortcuts on Desktop to Webpages: Make webpage a Favorite in browser, then drag it onto the Desktop.
Change wallpaper: Settings > Settings Manager > Desktop
Zoom into screen with Start + scroll wheel
Fotowall from website and make the 64-bit file executable and just launch it from the file
gnome-system-monitor shows internet traffic. Unlike Task Manager
sudo apt-get install fonts-thai-tlwg to install Thai fonts ไทย

OTHER INSTALLS
Optional

sudo apt-get install lmms (but the audio is scratchy)
sudo apt-get install openvpn
sudo apt-get install monodevelop (not yet)
sudo apt-get install ardour

Blender Use the AppImage in the OurPrograms folder, although another option is 
... it comes as a tar.zy from https://www.blender.org/
Open terminal in the folder and type tar xz blahblah.tar.xz ... (this will unpack it into a blender folder). Go in that folder. The blender file will be an executable.
Ardour. Have to use their site for the AppImage, and they send the DL link to your email

Bitwig
Hard to install because of i386 dependencies
You need to install Gdebi and gdebi-core first, in order to install this .deb package, but that is done in the Updates and Installs section above
(Also, check version number of your previous projects (if they were in version 3 and you install 2.4, it won't open them)
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
&& sudo apt-get update
(after these two things, the i386 unmet dependencies error disappeared)
In Bitwig, set Audio to PulseAudio. Go to Settings > Behavior and turn off Data Collection. Go to User Interface and Reverse zoom direction.

Cherrytree notes
make a .ctb file and save it to Desktop and set it to open default-ly with CherryTree
Can increase font size by CTRL + scrollwheel
User manual: https://giuspen.com/cherrytreemanual/

Polyphone font editor
sudo apt-get install polyphone

Handbrake for converting videos to other formats, and has all codecs, I've heard

H2 Hydrogen has a similar thing but for synth/midi called SEQ24

(neovim is better than vim because you can cut/paste, but I found it stupid compared with textEditor)


OTHER PRINTER INSTRUCTIONS 
(last time I installed Kali, after all the other stuff I did (including a reboot), the HP Smart Tank was able to be added with Start > Print Settings (add another one just like the one it might already detect)
(not sure if the above replaces this)
(but before that it didn't work without something from the following commands.)
(note this is a chatGPT condensed version I haven't tried:
sudo apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"
sudo -i
/usr/sbin/adduser root lpadmin
sudo service cups restart
sudo systemctl enable cups
sudo systemctl start cups
sudo apt install net-tools
ifconfig -a
)

    Plug in printer and find driver
    https://subba-lakshmi.medium.com/how-to-install-and-configure-printers-on-kali-linux-78a0476b3cfe
    (Needs cups (Common Unix Printing System))
    sudo apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db"
    (become root (necessary for next step) with:)
    sudo -i
    /usr/sbin/adduser root lpadmin
    (check if root is added with:)
    groups root
    (restart cups and kali with:)
    sudo service cups restart
    (then enable cups:)
    sudo systemctl enable cups
    (then start cups:)
    sudo systemctl start cups
    (at this point I could ‘add a printer’ in Print Settings, but it didn't offer any printer drivers despite being plugged in)
    (... so I updated, but that didn't work, so I wanted my IP, so I 
    sudo apt install net-tools     ... and
    ifconfig -a and saw my wlan0 IPs. Google saw the inet6 one
    https://127.0.0.1/
    and then while that was open in Print Settings it started suggesting the correct printer.

OTHER THING ON FONTS

BROWSER

FIREFOX does shitty things, so do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOHxCSsv5g (watch before even DOWNLOADING) ...

alternatives: Brave (Chromium monopoly) and LibreWolf. Brave.com/linux has it's Terminal commands, which are currently:

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

VM

See note below on AnyDesk, because inside a VM Kali doesn't seem to be able to install AnyDesk. Lubuntu from site.

SALAMANDER PRO (Piano)

Download from website. In folder, Terminal, then tar xf [filename]. This makes an .sfz file.
(that didnt work, I think maybe only sf2 files)

HTTrack (for downloading entire websites for offline reading)

ANYDESK

Don't forget, it works on Lubuntu. But doesn't seem to work on Kali
anydesk from website. Comes as a .deb file.
Missing libdgk-whatever. Upgrade DOES NOT fix this.
So far, can't get it to work, although I think I got it to work once on someone's Kali
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gnupg2
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk.list'
wget -qO - https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/DEB-GPG-KEY | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt -y update && sudo apt -y install anydesk *then, because kali isn't supported: *wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pangox-compat/libpangox-1.0-0_0.0.2-5.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i libpangox-1.0-0_0.0.2-5.1_amd64.deb
https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-anydesk-on-kali-linux/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/AnyDesk/comments/qip1ka/kali_linux_not_working_libpangox10so0_issue_at/
Once installed, you have to set up unattended access.

Otherwise, you will wait for the computer to turn on AnyDesk, and you'll pick it and connect, and it will say “password or the other computer has to press grant access”.

YT_DLP (youtube-dl didn't work for me last time)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
https://linuxconfig.org/yt-dlp-vs-youtube-dl

For mp3:

$ yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/.....

https://write.corbpie.com/downloading-youtube-videos-and-playlists-with-yt-dlp/

For playlist:

yt-dlp -f 'bv*[height=1080]+ba' --download-archive videos.txt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=etcetcetc... -o '%(channel_id)s/%(playlist_id)s/%(id)s.%(ext)s'

Virtualbox can be installed with apt install, but produces an error

Next time, try virtualbox-dkms first and see if that works

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux list:
• For FONTS, just put a folder with them in home/username/.local/share/fonts
• Kali has a bunch in user/share/fonts. You can delete some (I'm not sure which ones you can delete without losing render ability. But I deleted the Noto folder (so many fonts), roboto, and some others. I had to change the fonts in CherryTree after (File > Freferences > Fonts) urw-base35 is the one used by LibreOffice (and maybe CherryTree also). Spanish fonts: Antic, Aquiline.
• Hindi fonts won't display unless you sudo apt-get install fonts-indic
• Garamond font for book printing
• .fonts in home directory acts like a place to find fonts
• /usr/share/fonts is where pre-installed system fonts are (maybe don't delete these)
• Or find your font location by opening Font Manager and R-click > Open location
• Make shortcuts on Desktop to Webpages: Make webpage a Favorite in browser, then drag it onto the Desktop.
• Change wallpaper: Settings > Settings Manager > Desktop
• Zoom into screen with Start + scroll wheel

Some programs can run from AppImages, so you don't need to install them:

Some programs must be installed from their .deb file (after installing Gdebi package installer, and remember you have to OPEN Gdebi program and inside it open the .deb packages. If you just go to Thunar and open the .deb with Gdebi it will crash when you click ‘install’).

Some printer drivers might need to be installed (from my Programs and Drivers folder)

VMs:

INTERNET SITES
Do video calls with talky.io

NOTES ON VMz

MULVAD
from website is a .deb
have to install gdebi gdebi-core
then restart and it worked

PIPEWIRE / PULSEAUDIO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2lWR1Kmvag

HOW TO UNDO PIPEWIRE AND REVERT TO PULSE
systemctl --user unmask pulseaudio
systemctl --user --now disable pipewire-media-session.service
systemctl --user --now disable pipewire pipewire-pulse
systemctl --user --now enable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket
sudo apt remove pipewire-audio-client-libraries pipewire
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1407885/how-to-uninstall-pipewire-and-go-back-to-pulseaudio

Arduino
AppImage from arduino.cc if don't have the AppImage already
Hello Drum library. With the Arduino IDE program opened, go to manage libraries and it will be there in the search (downloadable). I also downloaded it locally and put it in the Software Folder
"avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00," aka Some Dude Named Avr Won't Let Me Upload My Program ... ... This error, retry evertying, and then do Tools > Processor and try the at least 2 options 328 and 328 Old Bootloader. This worked for me.

ClamAV for antivirus/scanning
sudo apt install clamav clamtk
(might require an update)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsOoXiFP1E
you can schedule

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