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0006582Kali LinuxKali Websites & Docspublic2020-07-17 12:192021-06-23 16:18
Reportermicrolaser Assigned ToGamb1t  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Product Version2020.2 
Summary0006582: error on documentation for building kali with debootstrap
Description

I used the instructions here for building kali with debootstrap:

https://www.kali.org/tutorials/build-kali-with-live-build-on-debian-based-systems/

To build this shell script with the contents of the doc. The contents of my shell script are identical to the contents of the doc.

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade

wget https://http.kali.org/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2018.1_all.deb
wget https://archive.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_20180618kali1_all.deb
sudo apt -y install git live-build cdebootstrap debootstrap curl
sudo dpkg -i kali-archive-keyring_2018.1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i live-build_20180618kali1_all.deb
cd /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/
(echo "default_mirror http://http.kali.org/kali"; sed -e "s/debian-archive-keyring.gpg/kali-archive-keyring.gpg/g" sid) > kali
sudo ln -s kali kali-rolling

cd ~
git clone git://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config.git

cd live-build-config/

Check we have a good debootstrap

ver_debootstrap=$(dpkg-query -f '${Version}' -W debootstrap)
if dpkg --compare-versions "$ver_debootstrap" lt "1.0.97"; then
if ! echo "$ver_debootstrap" | grep -q kali; then
echo "ERROR: You need debootstrap >= 1.0.97 (or a Kali patched debootstrap). Your current version: $ver_debootstrap" >&2

exit 1

fi
fi

Steps To Reproduce

1) Use the contents of the doc to make a shell script like i did.
2) run it to build kali with debootstrap.

the output is as follows:

michael@ghost:~/Documents$ sh kali2.sh
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]
Hit:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Hit:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 205 kB in 6s (36.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
--2020-07-17 08:15:10-- https://http.kali.org/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2018.1_all.deb
Resolving http.kali.org (http.kali.org)... 192.99.200.113
Connecting to http.kali.org (http.kali.org)|192.99.200.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-07-17 08:15:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

--2020-07-17 08:15:10-- https://archive.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_20180618kali1_all.deb
Resolving archive.kali.org (archive.kali.org)... 192.99.45.140
Connecting to archive.kali.org (archive.kali.org)|192.99.45.140|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-07-17 08:15:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
git is already the newest version (1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3).
cdebootstrap is already the newest version (0.7.7ubuntu2).
curl is already the newest version (7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1).
debootstrap is already the newest version (1.0.118ubuntu1.1).
live-build is already the newest version (3.0~a57-1ubuntu38.20.04.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'kali-archive-keyring_2018.1_all.deb': No such file or directory
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'live-build_20180618kali1_all.deb': No such file or directory
kali2.sh: 11: cannot create kali: Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'kali-rolling': File exists
Cloning into 'live-build-config'...
fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer
kali2.sh: 17: cd: can't cd to live-build-config/
michael@ghost:~/Documents$

the crux of the problem is the two wget commands in the docs both produce 404's

--2020-07-17 08:15:10-- https://http.kali.org/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2018.1_all.deb
Resolving http.kali.org (http.kali.org)... 192.99.200.113
Connecting to http.kali.org (http.kali.org)|192.99.200.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-07-17 08:15:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

--2020-07-17 08:15:10-- https://archive.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_20180618kali1_all.deb
Resolving archive.kali.org (archive.kali.org)... 192.99.45.140
Connecting to archive.kali.org (archive.kali.org)|192.99.45.140|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-07-17 08:15:10 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Additional Information

I would be willing to work on fixing the scripting, I actually have been doing it in my free time with little success, I have a lot going on. If someone can fix this fast please do, I think good documentation is important for open source projects so I have opened this bug to bring it to the community attention that the documentation is in need of updating. Thank you.

Activities

microlaser

microlaser

2020-07-26 00:11

reporter   ~0013140

I know this page does not present these commands as a shell script, but I had wanted to put them together like a shell script, and they did not work. I have worked out why and have put the commands together as the following shell script. It successfully builds a kali iso. Is it possible for someone to give me access to this URL to rewrite the documentation to include these corrections? If this is not possible can someone else update it? Thanks.

#!/bin/bash

Install dependencies (debootstrap)

sudo apt -y install git live-build cdebootstrap debootstrap curl

Fetch the latest Kali debootstrap script from git

wget https://http.kali.org/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2020.2_all.deb
wget https://archive.kali.org/kali/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_20191221_all.deb
sudo apt -y install git live-build cdebootstrap debootstrap curl
sudo dpkg -i kali-archive-keyring_2020.2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i live-build_20191221_all.deb
cd /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/
(echo "default_mirror http://http.kali.org/kali"; sed -e "s/debian-archive-keyring.gpg/kali-archive-keyring.gpg/g" sid) > kali
ln -s kali ./kali-rolling
cd ~
git clone https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/live-build-config
cd live-build-config/
sudo ./build.sh --variant light --verbose
microlaser

microlaser

2020-07-26 14:26

reporter   ~0013143

This line fails:

(echo "default_mirror http://http.kali.org/kali"; sed -e "s/debian-archive-keyring.gpg/kali-archive-keyring.gpg/g" sid) > kali

it does not create the output file kali
microlaser

microlaser

2020-07-26 14:47

reporter   ~0013144

Please ignore the previous note, user error. I am running this script with the output to a file now to see if it errors out, it would not succeed in the ln -s command because the file already existed, I deleted the files located in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ and am running again to make sure there is no problem. Since I am logging the output II will see for sure.
steev

steev

2021-06-23 16:18

manager   ~0014771

Keep in mind that that blog post is almost 2 years old, and package versions update in that time. You could definitely submit a pull request to update the package versions on the https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/documentation/kali-blog repository though!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-07-17 12:19 microlaser New Issue
2020-07-26 00:11 microlaser Note Added: 0013140
2020-07-26 14:26 microlaser Note Added: 0013143
2020-07-26 14:47 microlaser Note Added: 0013144
2021-06-23 16:18 steev Note Added: 0014771
2021-06-23 16:18 steev Assigned To => Gamb1t
2021-06-23 16:18 steev Status new => assigned