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Convert Debain to Kali

Add All Kali tools to a vanilla Linux Distro

Add Kali APT packages to another distro

How to add Kali Linux repositories to another Linux distribution

Note: use the latest Kali source for improved speed. https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/kali-linux-sources-list-repositories/

Kali Bleeding Edge has the most updated stable ish tools as it get's the releases from github.

Misc Commands for WSL

wsl --set-default-version 2

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

wsl --install -d ubuntu

# Enable Nested Virtualization on host for that VM
Set-VMProcessor -VMName 'Windows 11 dev environment' -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true

Add Kali Repo

Tested on WSL Ubuntu, don't upgrade the distro as it breaks everysingle time I tried that

# Note: these are the commands I used last time I did this
# Add kali to apt sources list
# Get the latest source list from
# https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/kali-linux-sources-list-repositories/

echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list

wget http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2022.1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i kali-archive-keyring_2022.1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update -y