I am currently trying to install Parrot OS Architect in order to customize my Parrot OS experience to the maximum. It is not the first time I am using Parrot OS (around July 2020) and I’m using it quite a lot in my daily life.
However, Parrot OS architect had issues during the first time I tried it a few months ago preventing me to actually contact any of the servers, so I tried again today.
During my installation, everything seems fine, I can format my partition just fine. However, what’s after that step is what is preventing me to continue installing it:
It says it’s preparing to configure parrot-core (amd64), and doesn’t want to move further. I’ve waited hours thinking it’d take some time, but according to some videos around, it shouldn’t.
However, I’ve noticed after changing screen (CTRL+ALT+F4) that it is stuck on a input prompt. However, even if accepting or changing doesn’t change anything…
Thank you for the report. This is the problem when package installation asks user to select config (from stdin) and the installer which uses GUI can’t do it. I am reporting it to Palinuro
I and Palinuro is having a disagreement on this. Palinuro wants simple “fix” by rebuild the ISO only with latest packages and I want to make a patch (the solution in 4) to debian-installer-utils so Parrot can avoid this problem in the future. We are working on it to find the final solution.
Well! It’s our job so we don’t get food if we don’t fix it
Joking aside, it wasn’t very easy for us because we reused the package from Debian and non of us touched the source code level of the installer (or more accurate: many parts of installer. Palinuro modified the core for Parrot ofc). So it took a while and a lot of energy to spot the exact location. It wasn’t easy nor fun.
Hope fully we can release the next version soon. We except the first beta build in next week.
Hi to all! I found a walk-around to avoid the issue and have ParrotOS 5.0.1 installed over ARM. I hope it works for you too. In the past, I tried to do the same but had some issues with the network, but now all works well! (I think was fixed with the last update of parallels )
Go through installation of the base system
When prompted with “Scan extra installation media?”, Press on “Go Back”
Select “Install the GRUB boot loader”
Finish the installation
This will install the bare bones of ParrotOS. Now to get the full experience, you’ll need to install the Desktop Environment followed by the tools.
Once the installation is done, it’ll restart the VM.
Log into ParrotOS
Check to see if you have network access by typing in the command ping www.google.com
If you get a response, then you can skip to step 7, otherwise continue onto step 4 to configure your network.
Identify your network interface, the command is ip addr, this will list your network interfaces. Look for something that has link/ether underneath it, mine was enp0s5.
Run sudo dhclient enp0s5 to configure your network interface
I’m curious to know if you ended up with a usable system. After installing the tools on Parallels 18, ParrotOS (5.1 KDE) will often freeze with the VM CPU indicator pinned to 100%.
willnout, I have been enjoying my new install for parrot os 5.1 with the m1 pro chip in apple virtualization framework on the macOS 13 beta. (especially when Virtual box did not allow install on a armbased mac) When I attempted to install the original apt issue in 5.0 was resolved but during graphical install after selecting the rest of the operating to download and install it hanged on … (thought I took a screenshot ) something icons unpacking. So when that occurred, I had to delete the container and redo the install with the steps from you, I followed the steps to install the base package and then installed the desktop environment. and the rest of the applications.
Thank you for the awesome instructions. This also helped on a windows virtual box instance also.
Hi Tera_byte as a quick check, see if you can download sudo apt install traceroute (depending on packages installed or if skipped, traceroute might need to be installed manually. --This was true in my case) This is not a requirement to set up the desktop environment but a small test to see if your repository is working.
Next command that can be utilized is sudo apt list | grep parrot-desktop the following should come up on screen
) something icons unpacking. So when that occurred, I had to delete the container and redo the install with the steps from you, I followed the steps to install the base package and then installed the desktop environment. and the rest of the applications.
