BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing/normal Arch installations. It acts as an unofficial user repository. Below you will find instructions on how to install BlackArch in this manner.
As part of an alternative method of installation, you can build the blackarch packages from source. You can find the PKGBUILDs on github. To build the entire repo, you can use the blackman tool.
First, you must install blackman. If the BlackArch package repository is setup on your machine,
you can install blackman like:
$ sudo pacman -S blackman
Download, compile and install package:
$ sudo blackman -i
Download, compile and install whole category
$ sudo blackman -g
Download, compile and install all BlackArch tools
$ sudo blackman -a
To list blackarch categories
$ blackman -l
To list category tools
$ blackman -p
The complete tool list of the BlackArch Linux repository can be found here.
request-
please provide a official way to add tools of blackarch linux (not the ui) on top of garuda......but still retaining the garuda sweet style ui. i know its possible manually but its not the official way...... i want a ui integration to do the same. the neon ui vibes with the pentesting feel. it will create a tough competition for parrot and kali as they are compared to be EASIER than blackarch............but garuda can change it once n forever!
i would like to see if the garuda team tests it first before the users. i want a way by which garuda linux can run all blackarch tools but still retaining it look and feel and under the hood optimizations like the zen kernel. if blackarch is installed over stock arch, the theme of blackarch dominates, i want the tools only n not the blackarch theme. the easy graphical troubleshooting in garuda coupled with a good if not official integration would attract quite a debian-kali crowd for more tools in blackarch integrated garuda
My own personal opinion is your directions on your OP is a recipe for disaster for new users, and would be better removed from the forum.
Like all alterations that most newbies enquire about, my answer is often if you have to ask you probably shouldn't be doing that.
Your directions will inevitably lead to system breakages, and there's no way Garuda could provide support for that radical a deviation from a standard install.
Like all things with Linux, you are free to do as you please with your own system. Experiment, tweak it, and break it to your hearts content. Just don't expect others to clean up your mess when you've broken things by radically altering the standard Garuda install.
If and when Garuda releases a Black Arch version I'm sure you'll hear about it. Until then, feel free to experiment and provide feedback to the team if you make any significant progress with your hybrid installations.
Thats sadly not really possible until GNOME supports native blur - there is an extension which blurs windows but its not yet in a state where its actually useful
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