As always I woke up, get to the computer and got my updates ‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade’. I got an error message ‘/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)’ with the problem of unable to install plasma-desktoptheme:amd64 6.2.3-2. I tried purge and stuff then i rebooted. Now my login screen is broken and I have no internet connection. I ve tried all(from tty, dns, hosts…), all I get is ‘failed to fetch temporary failure resolving’. I can provide logs, can anyone help me?
Hi! I personally don’t have much insight into the issue you’re describing, sorry - others here might have more ideas, though.
However - is it safe to assume from the title you have Kali Linux installed on your device? If so, in general, it may be a struggle to find folks outside of the Kali Linux community who are familiar with and able to help support using it as a permanently-installed, “daily driver” operating system.
As one example, running everything as root, as is directly enabled by Kali Linux, is explicitly unsupported and never recommended for an ongoing installation, and will result in significant issues along with many annoyances.
If you are interested in long-term usage of KDE Plasma on your device, I would encourage you to use a more appropriate general-purpose Linux distro, such as one of the ones you can see at Distributions with Plasma and KDE Applications - KDE Community.
(If you’re not trying to run Kali Linux on your device…please disregard the previous three paragraphs! 
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Best of luck,
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Hey, thank you for your response. Just to update, ı ve dealt with the resolving issue(its dns and network, ı connected to my network from tty and am able to install/update stuff). I agree with all you said, which is why I am trying to find a way to transfer my important files. I am gonna use ubuntu or mint. But the problem is now, ı am stuck in tty, I can not use anything else(I appearently broke lots of things). If you can help me about transfer ways with tty( ı have http.server on my mind) or any way to log fix broken now, I would be grateful. Thanks for your help.
If the biggest concern is getting files off the device…do you have an external (like USB attachable) drive that could hold them? The easiest way might honestly be to boot a live USB (of pretty much any Linux distribution), and from within its desktop environment, mount your internal drive with the files and the external drive, then just copy the files over to the external.
And as a bonus, now you’d have an external drive already designated as your local backup disk
Kali is designed for professional tool, not so much a desktop distribution.
I would suggest that even installing/removing themes is not something one would expect Kali users to be interested in.
Thank you. I will give it a try right now, and will get back to you.
I was looking at this Customizing Kali video once and although it was nicely done I kept asking myself “why?”. If you use Kali for what it is made for, you might wanna go for something really light, not even a DE for that matter. The likes of openbox or jwm. I mean, all the kali tools are availabale separately ( as package or to-be compiled) so why bother with something that drags in a ton of deps and what not while you can “easily” create a lightweight bootable iso? Personally I’d use Kali hanging on some keychain in my pocket, but hey…
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