GitHub - Kicksecure/kicksecure-meta-packages needs improvements:
kicksecure-cli - keep existing package as iskicksecure-cli-server - new package to be added to kicksecure-meta-packages
Depends: kicksecure-desktop-firewall
includes firewall that by default opens port 22 (SSH’s default port)
security-misc-server [no MAC address randomization]
kicksecure-cli-desktop - new package to be added to kicksecure-meta-packages
Depends: kicksecure-desktop-firewall - new package to be created
Comes with all ports closed by default.
Depends: security-misc-desktop - new package to be created
Might come with MAC address randomization. → ticket
kicksecure-xfce - keep existing package as iskicksecure-xfce-server [Will not be created.]kicksecure-xfce-desktop - new package to be created
Depends: kicksecure-cli-desktop
related:
Thanks a lot Patrick!!!cli-server?
SteveK1978 via Kicksecure Forums:
By the way, did you remove Tor related stuff in cli-server?
No. It doesn’t even exist yet.
Patrick
September 17, 2025, 6:35pm
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This was implemented by @arraybolt3 . Meta packages are now much more suitable for desktop versus server split. Will be released together with Kicksecure 18.
Source: kicksecure-meta-packages
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@kicksecure.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 13), debhelper-compat (= 13)
Homepage: https://github.com/Kicksecure/kicksecure-meta-packages
Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/Kicksecure/kicksecure-meta-packages
Vcs-Git: https://github.com/Kicksecure/kicksecure-meta-packages.git
Standards-Version: 4.7.2
Rules-Requires-Root: no
Package: dist-general-cli
Architecture: all
Pre-Depends: legacy-dist
Depends: apparmor-profile-dist,
apt-transport-tor,
apt-utils,
bootclockrandomization,
ca-certificates,
dialog,
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