Spicing up Debian with KickSecure

What is KickSecure and why do we need it? Kicksecure is a hardened operating system designed to be resistant to viruses and various attacks. It is based on Debian in accordance with an advanced multi-layer defense model, thereby providing in-depth security. Kicksecure provides protection from many types of malware in its default configuration with no customization required. We will be morphing our fresh Debian installation.

First, we need to create a new group called console. Then add the your user to the console group

sudo addgroup --system console

sudo adduser "your_username" console

After that,we need to install console related packages.

 sudo apt install console-data console-common kbd keyboard-configuration

Now, we will install extrepo to get the kicksecure APT repository. We will also enable the repository

  sudo apt install extrepo 

  sudo extrepo enable kicksecure 

Next step is to download the kicksecure packages. Note that this will install a desktop environment(Xfce) and other applications

sudo apt install kicksecure-xfce-host

Finally, we need to enable the Kicksecure APT derivative.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list

sudo repository-dist --enable --repository onion

This command will generate derivative.list file.

Disable the extrepo kicksecure APT repository. This is to avoid a duplicate Kicksecure repository.

 sudo extrepo disable kicksecure

That's it! A quick reboot will apply all the new settings and configurations.