Kali-Live Build-Scripts

live-build configuration for Kali ISO images.

These are the same build-scripts that the Kali team uses to generate the official Kali Linux base images, found here: kali.org/get-kali/.

Build your Kali Linux image today!

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These images can be used to live boot into Kali, from such a USB/CD/DVD/sdCard, as well offers a basic installation. For more customization during setup, see kali-installer.

• kali-installer uses Simple-CDD (which is a wrapper for debian-cd)
• kali-live uses live-build

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Have a look at Live Build a Custom Kali ISO for explanations on how to use this repository.

There are also other code examples of live-build, as well as code examples for pre-seed to automate/unattended installation.

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Help

$ ./build.sh --help
Usage: ./build.sh [<option>...]

  --distribution <arg>
  --proposed-updates
  --arch <arg>
  --verbose
  --debug
  --variant <arg>
  --version <arg>
  --subdir <arg>
  --get-image-path
  --no-clean
  --clean
  --help

More information: https://www.kali.org/docs/development/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso/
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Usage Examples

Both images types, using the latest packages:

$ ./build.sh
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Manually define which Kali mirror to pull from, as well as be more detailed in output:

$ echo "http://kali.download/kali" > .mirror
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$ ./build.sh --verbose
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Build a different Live image version (GNOME and KDE Plasma):

$ ./build.sh \
  --debug \
  --variant gnome
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$ ./build.sh \
  --debug \
  --variant kde
[...]
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