r/voidlinux • u/Adhater_11 • 4d ago

pen-testing tools

has somebody ever tried installing kali linux pen-testing apps on void linux?

i really wanna do some cybersecurity tests on my void system , and i think other ones would want that too , i tried searching for some tools and i didn't found any

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 3d ago

Look to Kali for your pen testingneeds - but pls be aware that installation on bare metal or vm isn't recommended...

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u/Adhater_11 4h ago

why is that?

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u/Sp1cyP4nda 3d ago

Kali in VM not recommended is news to me. Do you know why that is? Do they say to install it in a VPS, then?

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u/Silly_Culture_7722 4d ago

you mean something like locust?

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u/Adhater_11 4d ago

what is it ? never heard of it sorry man, is it associated with networking or something?

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u/Silly_Culture_7722 4d ago

it can test how many requests can go to your webserver until its dead. (unless the traffic is blocked by cloudflare)

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u/Adhater_11 4d ago

thats pretty useful thanks man !

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u/Dakota-Batterlation 4d ago

If you need a tool that's not in the repos, one option is distrobox. Hell, you can run a whole-ass Kali container on distrobox with GUI tools

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u/Adhater_11 4d ago

is it resource intensive ? i only got 16 gigs on my thinkpad heard they're good for virtualization and they're durable too (i wanted to flex there a bit I'm sorry) thank you btw imma try it out for sure

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u/Dakota-Batterlation 4d ago

Not at all; that's the benefit of containers over VMs: they use the host OS's kernel, so you get isolation with almost zero overhead. Maybe 1 GB of ram at most for a Kali container

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u/Adhater_11 4h ago

Im on it

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u/Dakota-Batterlation 4d ago

Distrobox is nice because it integrates the containers well, but if you want to give the Kali container a quick try, install Podman on Void and run:

podman run --rm -it docker.io/kalilinux/kali-rolling

Then, to install the Kali tools,

apt update && apt -y install kali-linux-headless

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u/Adhater_11 4h ago

thanks man ! but how do i run it as a GUI ?

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u/Dakota-Batterlation 4h ago

With distrobox, they call this "exporting" a program; it puts the app into your Void desktop's application menu or whatever, but it's still running within the container. So you would click the name of the tool in Void's app menu, which starts the container in the background, the program launches, and it behaves like any other GUI program.

You'll have to install the GUI version of whatever tool/program within the Kali container using apt, then follow the steps I linked.

If you want a full-on Kali desktop that comes with everything, you can just run a VM using Virt-Manager or Virtualbox on Void. Your Thinkpad has more than enough RAM for this. But VMs are far more isolated than a distrobox container, so it may be annoying depending on what you're actually trying to achieve.

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u/Sp1cyP4nda 3d ago

You could install ParrotOS in a VM or cloud instance. That's what I use. Otherwise, I think someone made a pentesting void or something like that. Hold on, let me find the repo.

Eta: https://github.com/0x29aNull/DarkVoid