RetroShare is a free and open-source communication platform that offers secure and encrypted communication for instant messaging, file sharing, and social networking. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install RetroShare on the latest version of Kali Linux.
Before we begin with the installation of RetroShare, we need to make sure that Kali Linux is up-to-date. To update your Kali Linux system, run the following command in the terminal.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
To install RetroShare, we will first add the RetroShare repository to our system. Here are the steps to follow.
Open the terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T
on your keyboard.
Add the RetroShare repository key to your system using the following command:
wget -O - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/retroshare/Debian_11/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/retroshare/Debian_11/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/retroshare.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install retroshare
retroshare
Congratulations! You have successfully installed RetroShare on your Kali Linux system.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install RetroShare on Kali Linux. RetroShare is a great communication platform that offers secure and encrypted communication. We hope that this tutorial was helpful and that you were able to install RetroShare on your Kali Linux system.
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