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0008727Kali LinuxKali Websites & Docspublic2024-04-23 16:44
Reportervanguard Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0008727: Nethunter-rootless - documentation improvement
Description

Dear maintainers,

during the last days I tried to install nethunter rootless on my Samsung A6. Doing so, i ran into some issues, which are not covered by the documentation. If you dpo as the documentation on the website is telling
it will not work. Here is, hat happens, and the solutions:


First of all, do as the website is telling.

Issue 1: Update problem of nethunter, installation hangs forever, when installing package "libc6"
Solution: (this can also be done with apt, maybe, but I am prefer to use aptitude)-. Start nethunter and become root using "sudo su" with password "kali"
Now first of all edir /etc/apt/sources.list and change "non-free" to "non-free non-free-firmware". Upgrade apt, using apt upgrade and now install aptitude,
Do an aptitude update then hold libc6 by using the command "aptitude hold libc6".

After this, upgrade everything using the command "aptitude full-upgrade". If everything is upgraded, unhold libc6 (aptitude unhold libc6) and upgrade libc6, too.

Issue 2: In Termux when you want to set the kex password (nethunter kex passwd), you get the error, "vncpasswd not found.
Solution: In Termux install tigervncserver. Then start nethunter (command: nethunter), beoce root again and install the packages "tightvncserver" and "xtightvncviewer".
Exit from nethunter into Termux. Now you can start "nethunter kex passwd" and can set a vnc password.

If you later start the app "Nethunter-Kex" you will need to use this. Doing so, it will all work.

Issue 3: Memory problem. As my tablet only has 16GB Memory, and only 3GB free, I am running into memory problems.
Solution (only partly!): If you add a sd card and formate it as "internal memnory" your memory will increase with the size of the sd card. Now you have the option, to move the "Termux" app
to the sd-card,. which will give you a lot of memory. However, this is only working in theory!

The problem here is in Termux itself: As some paths in Termux are hardcoded, Termux will no more working again.

The solution (I still found no way, to emulate the hardcoded paths, maybe someone else know) will be, to ask the developer of Termux, to make the paths variable or let them change somehow.

If doing so, it should be capable to fully install nethunter rootless onto a sd card.

It would be nice, if you could add the solutions of Issue1 and Issue2 on your website, I suppose, it will help many people (I saw lots of discussion of these issues in the forums).

This is just a suggestion in the hope, it will help.

To the Termux issue: I could contact the developer of Termux, but maybe you want use another or better way handling this issue. So I will leave it to you, what is best.

Thank you very much for reading this.

Best regards

Hans

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vanguard

vanguard

2024-04-20 10:07

reporter   ~0019168

Answer and adding myself:
A suggested solution for the issues 1 and 2 could also be, if the changes I described, are already in the downloaded nethunter-files:
the correct sources.list, and already upgraded libc6 and installed tightvncserver and xtightvncviewer.

Please note:
My description above are related to "nethunter--nano" and nethunter--minimal. The file "nethunter--*full" I did not test, bcause it is just too big for my small tablet, but it might also be related to this issues (can someone else maybe check?).

Best

Hans

TelsaSecureNet

TelsaSecureNet

2024-04-23 16:44

reporter   ~0019186

hey i ran into the libc6 issue and theres a way to resolve the situation. i asked Copilot for help. it helped me setup termux and kali nethunter. it gave me all the commnds and instrutions i needed. you just have to be creative when askng questions. type te command again and when you get the error message select from the begining of the command to the end of the error meassge ad past it in the search o copilot. it will instruct you in what to do. f you need help just reach out i will help you with what to ask when you come across the issues. im new to linux been ddoing this for a week but i was trying to install termux and linux for day and nights for a week in total but i finally got it to work. it hasnt crashed or nythig since yesterday. i installed kali nehunter. its so much fun but now i just need to learn how to use thse apps. anyways be more than welcome to reach out.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-04-20 09:41 vanguard New Issue
2024-04-20 10:07 vanguard Note Added: 0019168
2024-04-23 16:44 TelsaSecureNet Note Added: 0019186