Friday, August 2, 2013

Configuring Kali 1.0.4 on Raspberry Pi

I installed Kali 1.0.4 to the Raspberry Pi yesterday.  I ended up using dd in Linux Mint, then gparted to expand the 2nd partition on the SD card.  That booted for me on the Raspberry Pi.

But, I was not able to start the X windows enironment using the startx command.  This was because xfce was not installed.  The way to check this is:
root@kali:~# dpkg --getselections | grep xfce

This did not return anything, which meant that there were none of the installed packages had xfce in the name.  I then updated the system:
root@kali:~# apt-get update
root@kali:~# apt-get upgrade

After the system was updated and upgraded, I installed xfce:
root@kali:~# apt-get install xfce

When I ran startx, I was able to get a GUI, but the windows system froze.  I was still able to ssh in and access the system, so it did not lock the computer.

I am currently trying to figure out how to get xfce to start.

1 comment:

  1. I left a ssh session running to the pie and left top running, if you look at it xfce nor any other x11 processes are running on the pi that is the problem

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