{"id":194,"date":"2016-11-01T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2016-11-01T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:57:34","slug":"notes-on-using-kali-linux-kde-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"notes on using Kali Linux &#8211; KDE version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the folks at Offensive Security removed the KDE build of Kali from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kali.org\/downloads\/\">download<\/a> list (the Enlightenment, XFCE, and LXDE versions are still there, but KDE is absent). Since KDE is my preferred window manager, this made me sad, until I found out you can grab them in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.kali.org\/kali-images\/kali-weekly\/\">weekly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.kali.org\/kali-daily-images\/\">daily<\/a> builds.<\/p>\n<p>Once I had Kali\/KDE up and running, the first thing I noticed was there was no GUI way to manage network interfaces. Having a background in Linux sysadmin, that wasn&#8217;t a huge obstacle &#8211; ifconfig, iwconfig, wpasupplicant, all were there and working. However, anyone that&#8217;s ever had to configure a WPA2\/PSK interface by hand can testify that this is one of the few places where having a simple GUI management interface is just plain nice to have. I did some digging, and discovered that the problem was the plasma-nm applet was not installed. A simple <code>apt-get install plasma-nm<\/code> took care of that problem &#8211; and handily pulled in all the required dependencies for the rest of the KDE network management tools as well.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, the rest of the stuff I like about KDE was there, along with all the usual Kali tools and resources. Finally, I get the best of both worlds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the folks at Offensive Security removed the KDE build of Kali from their download list (the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,30],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-howto","tag-kali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}