Customize Kali Linux
A quick guide to setup kali linux with some extras.
As I just got myself a ultrabook and wanted a linux distribution to experiment with security setups and some development. The installation is a normal kali linux with customized tmux, ruby on rails develop envoronment.
Item that need to be instaled are:
- sublime (text editor)
- Redis (fast key, value database)
- nodejs (javascript runtime)
tmux
change default b to a for easier keybinding, the tmux.conf can be found here tmux.conf
git
So we can have version controll, follow the instructions on github ssh key setup
Sublime
Download sublime2 here or sublime2 here
I choose sublime2, then extract the package with :
tar xf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1\ x64.tar.bz2
You’ll get a “Sublime Text 2″ folder after extraction. This folder contains all the files that Sublime Text will need. Then I moved it to “/opt/” folder :
mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/
To be able to use it from a terminal with “sublime”. For that just create a symbolic link in “/usr/bin” :
ln -s /opt/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime
Redis
Just download the 64-bit verion
here with
wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz there is also a online guide
here to unpack use
tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz change directory and comåile with make
Do not forget to run make test after, to install run make install this will just copy the binary files
so that you can start Redis then needed. To install it as service check the file README
NodeJS
This is a Javascript runtime that is needed to run various rails applications, I added the debian repository
in /etc/apt/sources.list just add this line :
add deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main
and run the following commands apt-get update followed by apt-get install nodejs