Intro

This is actually my thought process of making this script https://github.com/Flock137/EOSxBlackArch, where I put the BlackArch repo on top of EndeavourOS for a quick Arch pentest environment, since BlackArch is a bit of a hassle for installing quickly.

I hope it would help you in the case you wanna make an automation script yourself someday.

First and foremost

Install EndeavourOS. We will port our BlackArch repo into right after the former’s installation finish.

Port the BlackArch repo

Please refer to this tutorial for your reference: https://blackarch.org/downloads.html#install-repo (Section: Installing on top of ArchLinux).

The example below should give you a preview on what you need to do this step.

# Run https://blackarch.org/strap.sh as root and follow the instructions.

curl -O https://blackarch.org/strap.sh

# Verify the SHA1 sum

echo bdbaf7ecd039859160849a46694fe4921371e5b1 strap.sh | sha1sum -c

# Set execute bit

chmod +x strap.sh

# Run strap.sh

sudo ./strap.sh

# Enable multilib following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#Enabling_multilib and run:

sudo pacman -Syu

After the sudo pacman -Syu, most of the barebone, necessary security tools will be automatically installed for you

Other (useful) commands

# To list all of the available tools, run

sudo pacman -Sgg | grep blackarch | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort -u

# To install a category of tools, run

sudo pacman -S blackarch-<category>

# To see the blackarch categories, run

sudo pacman -Sg | grep blackarch

# To search for a specific package, run

pacman -Ss <package_name>

# Note - it maybe be necessary to overwrite certain packages when installing blackarch tools. If  
# you experience "failed to commit transaction" errors, use the --needed and --overwrite switches  
# For example:

sudo pacman -Syyu --needed --overwrite='*' <wanted-package>

Other manually installed apps

  • cutter
  • burpsuite
  • ghidra
  • impacket-ba (you will call the script up by its name, e.g. rpcdump.py)
  • stegsolve
  • steghide
  • audacity
  • bloodhound
  • python-uncompyle6
  • villain (maybe it got installed already? Gotta make an exception script for this situation. Nevermind, just put the flag --needed after each pacman -S)
  • rekall
  • autopsy
  • vim
  • (input more packages that you like to use here)

Custom zsh-shell

First

sudo pacman -S zsh

Install oh-my-zsh

Reference: https://ohmyz.sh/#install

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

or:

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

After ohmyzsh offer to change shell, type y. Manually: Log out and log back in so the change take effect. But the script will go on after this and prompt user to log out or reboot at the end.

Install autosugestions and syntax highlighting

Reference: https://gist.github.com/n1snt/454b879b8f0b7995740ae04c5fb5b7df

  • autosuggesions plugin: git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

  • zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin
    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

(I don’t recommend installing too much plugins, though. It will slow down your terminal startup.)

Open ~/.zshrc:

vim ~/.zshrc

Find the line that say: plugin=(git) Add your plugins inside the parenthesis, like this:

plugin=(git
		zsh-autosuggestions
		zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Then exit the terminal for change to take effect

Custom the terminal handle

The line that have your name and stuffs like that, y’know

I personally use the heapbytes, so my script will install this theme, as well.

Heapbytes theme feature:

  • Prints the current working directory
  • Prints the tun0 IP if connected to a VPN
  • Prints the wlan0 IP if you aren’t connected to any VPN. (change the module name in .zsh-theme according to your wifi module)
  • Git info

Install https://github.com/heapbytes/heapbytes-zsh/raw/refs/heads/main/heapbytes.zsh-theme to $ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/

In ~/zshrc:

ZSH_THEME="heapbytes"

save and exit terminal for the change to take effect.