• kali-linux-core: the base system (it is pulled by all the other metapackages)
• kali-linux-headless: the default Kali Linux installation command line tools
• kali-linux-default: the default Kali Linux installation, both command line and graphical
• kali-linux-large: wider range set of tools, which are not as commonly used
• kali-linux-everything: metapackage of all the metapackages and other packages (almost
everything that Kali provides so it is really huge!)
• kali-tools-top10: the ten most popular tools
• kali-tools-web: web applications assessment tools
• kali-tools-passwords: password cracking tools
• kali-tools-wireless: The collection of 802.11, Bluetooth, RFID and SDR wireless assessment
and analysis tools
• kali-tools-forensics: forensic tools (finding evidence of what happened)
• kali-tools-802-11: wireless assessment and analysis tools
• kali-tools-bluetooth: Bluetooth focused tools
• kali-tools-crypto-stego: cryptography and steganography tools
• kali-tools-crypto-fuzzing: fuzzing attack tools
• kali-tools-gpu: GPU-powered tools (tools making use of the computing power available in
your graphical card)
• kali-tools-hardware: tools designed to attacking hardware
• kali-tools-rfid: Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tools
• kali-tools-sdr: Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools
• kali-tools-voip: Voice Over IP tools
• kali-tools-windows-resources: Pre-compiled Microsoft Windows binaries
You can leverage these metapackages when you create custom package lists for
live-build
. The
full list of available metapackages and the tools they include can be found at
https://tools.kali.
org/kali-metapackages