BackBox Linux 4.7 released!

BackBox Linux 4.7 released!


The BackBox Team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, the version 4.7.

We thought to release a new minor version to give our users the opportunity to have a stable and up-to-date sytem till the next official major release, i.e. BackBox 5, stilll under development.

In this release we have fixed some minor bugs, updated the kernel stack, base system and tools.

The ISO images for 32bit & 64bit can be downloaded from the official web site download section:

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What's new

Updated Linux Kernel 4.4
Updated hacking tools: beef, metasploit, openvas, setoolkit, sqlmap, wpscan, etc.

System requirements

32-bit or 64-bit processor
1024 MB of system memory (RAM)
10 GB of disk space for installation
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
DVD-ROM drive or USB port (3 GB)

Upgrade instructions

To upgrade from a previous version (BackBox 4.x) follow these instructions:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install -f



sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial



sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev ruby2.1 ruby2.1-dev ruby2.2-dev ruby2.2 --reinstall

sudo apt-get purge ri1.9.1 ruby1.9.1 bundler libruby2.0 ruby2.0 ruby2.0-dev libruby1.9.1 ruby-full

sudo gem cleanup

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gems/1.*

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/gems/2.0.*

sudo apt-get install backbox-default-settings backbox-desktop backbox-menu backbox-tools --reinstall

sudo apt-get install beef-project metasploit-framework whatweb wpscan setoolkit --reinstall

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

sudo apt-get install openvas sqlite3

sudo openvas-launch sync

sudo openvas-launch start

sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable

sudo update-rc.d polipo disable

sudo update-rc.d openvas-gsa disable

sudo update-rc.d openvas-manager disable

sudo update-rc.d openvas-scanner disable



sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

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