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Using Kicksecure without Tor. Can Kicksecure be used without Tor?

Introduction

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Advanced users only!

Options

Choose one or multiple options.

A) Kicksecure Repositories Review

Look through the repositories provided by Kicksecure on github (sorted by name). For example, security-misc can be installed without installing any packages that Depends: on tor.

Each repository has a rudimentary readme file which explains the functionality of the software package and how to install it.

B) Packages for Debian Hosts

Some packages are mentioned on the Packages for Debian Hosts wiki page.

C) Kicksecure Meta Packages Review

Alternatively, the user could look at kicksecure-meta-packages debian/control and choose meta packages which do not Depends: on tor. This isn't easy. As a package on which a meta pacakge Depends: might itself have a Depends: on tor.

The user would have to review the output of APT before proceeding to install to see if it includes tor.

D) Install a fake Tor package

1. fake tor already being installed

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/18192/how-to-fake-a-package-version-installed
• https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/HackingDependencies

2. Configure APT to update without Tor

3. Update without Tor

E) Mask the Tor service.

The user could attempt to prevent Tor from starting before installing Kicksecure. Untested!

1.

sudo systemctl mask tor

2.

sudo systemctl mask tor@default

3. Update without Tor

Update without Tor

The tor+ prefix would need to be removed from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list.

Future

This is mostly undocumented. No development progress should be expected as this is not the project focus. At very least not until a Kicksecure ISO becomes available.

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