These scripts can build a Kali Linux stratum and/or a BlackArch stratum on Bedrock Linux. For Kali Linux, the script fetches a live Kali Linux image (currently version 2020.4) and uses unsquashfs to copy the relevant files to /bedrock/strata/kali. For BlackArch, the script it downloads a fresh Arch Linux strata to /bedrock/strata/blackarch, then installs the BlackArch repository ontop of it.
The following are the system requirements for this script:
- Bedrock Linux installed
- x64 system
- Sufficent disk space to download and unpack:
- a Kali Linux ISO file for the Kali Linux script; or
- a new Arch Linux stratum for the BlackArch script.
In addition to the above system requrements, the scripts require that the following packages are available on your system:
- For the Kali Linux script:
- wget
- unsquashfs
- For the BlackArch script:
- wget
You can download the scripts using the following command by cloning this repo
Make the Kali Linux script executable:
cd ./kali-linux-on-Bedrock
chmod +x build-kali.sh
Run the script as root:
sudo ./build-kali.sh
Make the BlackArch script executable:
cd ./kali-linux-on-Bedrock
chmod +x build-blackarch.sh
Run the script as root:
sudo ./build-blackarch.sh
You can now install all of the BlackArch packages with the following command:
sudo strat -r blackarch pacman -S blackarch
pacman will ask you about a number of dependencies, which you can address by pressing enter for each dependency it asks about, and answering y when it asks you the following question:
Do you want to skip the above packages for this upgrade? [y/N]
Note, you may run into errors when installing blackarch where pacman complains that blackarch-mirrorlist: /etc/pacman.d/blackarch-mirrorlist exists in filesystem. You can get around this by running the following command to install blackarch:
sudo strat -r blackarch pacman -S blackarch --overwrite '*'
This appears to be an upstream bug with BlackArch and is not (as far as I can tell) related to this script.
It is very possible that these scripts can destroy your system, delete your data, or set your cat on fire. Please be careful. I recommend testing this out in a virtual machine and/or executing each command manually and monitoring any output.
Please note that these scripts have only been (minimally) tested on a hijacked Ubuntu installation. It is possible that you may have to adjust the shebang at the beginning of each script depending on the location of bash on your system, which you can determine by running which bash. Creating a Kali Linux stratum and a BlackArch stratum are buggy processes. When you update and upgrade packages, you may receive some errors, but for the most part, the packages should be usable.
Please note that these scripts are not affiliated with Bedrock Linux.
Bedrock Linux is an extremely cool project that allows you to use packages from multiple Linux distributions at the same time. If you are not familiar with it, I highly recommend checking it out. From the Bedrock Linux website:
Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
For example, one could have:
- Debian's stable coreutils
- Arch's cutting edge kernel
- Void's runit init system
- A pdf reader with custom patches automatically maintained by Gentoo's portage
- A font from Arch's AUR
- Games running against Ubuntu's libraries
- Business software running against CentOS's libraries
All at the same time and working together mostly as though they were packaged for the same distribution.