Convert Debian to Kali

makekali.sh

apt update
apt -y install wget gnupg dirmngr
wget -q -O - https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc | gpg --import
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 44C6513A8E4FB3D30875F758ED444FF07D8D0BF6
echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
gpg -a --export ED444FF07D8D0BF6 | sudo apt-key add -
apt update
apt -y upgrade
apt -y dist-upgrade
apt -y autoremove --purge
apt -y install kali-linux-everything

Mine had to be changed to;

apt -y install wget gnupg dirmngr

and

apt -y install kali-linux-everything

Mine had to be changed to;

apt -y install wget gnupg dirmngr

and

apt -y install kali-linux-everything

Fixed, thanks!

Twice when running this I get an error during

apt -y upgrade

so need to run
apt --fix-broken install
apt -y upgrade

Not sure if the apt -y upgrade needs to be run first though.

Also, this list of Metapackages can be used instead of the kali-linux-everything option if you want a lighter weight option. The package kali-linux-arm is especially useful if installing on ARM like an Orange Pi Zero.

Just in case it helps anyone else having troubles getting everything working, I had a bit more success adding kali-last-snapshot to the sources.list as well, before I installed kali-linux-everything.

echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot main non-free contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 44C6513A8E4FB3D30875F758ED444FF07D8D0BF6

Debian 10 to Kali

sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install wget gnupg dirmngr
sudo wget -q -O - https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc | gpg --import
sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 44C6513A8E4FB3D30875F758ED444FF07D8D0BF6
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot main non-free contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo gpg -a --export ED444FF07D8D0BF6 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt -y autoremove --purge
sudo apt -y install kali-linux-everything

The gnupg server seems down
( sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 44C6513A8E4FB3D30875F758ED444FF07D8D0BF6 ) Work

I used the following steps on Debian 11 running on GCP

sudo curl https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kali-archive-key.asc
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo reboot
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge
sudo apt-get install kali-linux-headless
sudo apt clean

This is dangerous. Why not use Kali?

This is dangerous. Why not use Kali?

Sometimes you can't choose Kali directly, so it's the simple way to do it

Script did not work first time around got this response from termux.

The command
"~# gpg --sign-key ED444FF07D8D0BF6"
allowed the script to run all the way through idk if any has had any luck a different way I'd be curious to know.

This is dangerous. Why not use Kali?

It's not. I have done it for years. As Kali is based on Debian, but ahead of Debian stable or complementary to Debian testing, there cannot be any trouble.

This is dangerous. Why not use Kali?

It's not. I have done it for years. As Kali is based on Debian, but ahead of Debian stable or complementary to Debian testing, there cannot be any trouble.

Even if it are Linux, there can be dangerous.

This is dangerous. Why not use Kali?

It's not. I have done it for years. As Kali is based on Debian, but ahead of Debian stable or complementary to Debian testing, there cannot be any trouble.

Even if it are Linux, there can be dangerous.

Explain and develop then.

This way, it's technically a standard APT upgrade process, as it has worked for more than a decade. So, in theory no danger, and in practice no danger (I have done such stuff dozen of times, not a single issue, and always possible to roll back with a bit of apt skills).

i can skip the last part of installing kali for everything right? like download the each tool i need manually.

@TheMadTomato Sure. That's what I do and would recommend by the way : keep it slim with only useful stuff.

For me worked but need to do something more, need to add priority to kali repos cause was giving me unmet dependencies
> sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/kali-preferences.pref

And inside file:

Package: *
Pin: release o=kali
Pin-Priority: 1000

Then worked perfectly !