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CLEAR COMMAND HISTORY IN LINUX

It is common practice to simply type in commands into a terminal and leave the terminal with never clearing the history. The problem is, if someone accesses your system, they can see everything you have done, which can be an issue.

To check your terminal history, Open a Terminal and type:
history

To clear the History, simply type:
history -c

Now you can check your history again by typing:
history

And you can see it is clear. Do this before you log off your computer every time for good measure

[FIXED] PARROT OS NTP TIME INACTIVE

When you run timedatectl it will show you the current date and time on your Parrot box. You will also see that NTP in inactive. To fix it

sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

Then run

timedatectl

and the correct time will now show

PARROT OS – UNZIP FILES ALONG WITH ZIPPED FILES IN SUBFOLDERS

This is a quick how-to on unzipping files using Parrot Security OS

Open a terminal
Navigate to the directory where the zipped files are
Type
unzip -d filename.zip

If you have a Zipped file that contains sub folders with additional zipped files you can unzip everything by typing
for z in *.zip; do unzip “$z”; done

You’re welcome

INSTALL LYNX INTERNET BROWSER PARROT OS

From time to time you will need a browser that is text only. One that can run from a terminal instead of an internet browser. For this solution, we choose to use Lynx, and this guidel will show you how to install lynx on Parrot OS

Open terminal
sudo bash
Enter your password
apt-get install lynx
y
The application installs
To browse from the terminal, type:
lynx tacticalware.com
When you are done browsing and ready to end the session, type:
q to quit
y to confirm

Thanks for Reading!

INSTALL NORDVPN ON PARROT OS

This is a guide on how I have installed and configured NordVPN to work on Parrot OS

Open a terminal
sudo bash
sh <(curl -sSf https://downloads.nordcdn.com/apps/linux/install.sh

After it installs type
nordvpn login
Enter your username
Enter your password

Once you are logged in type
nordvpn set killswitch on

Select the countries to vpn through by typing
nordvpn countries

Select the country
nordvpn cities Vietnam
Hanoi – will be listed

Now type:
nordvpn connect Vietnam Hanoi

Once you are done with Nord type:
nordvpn disconnect

NVIDIA 1080 TI DRIVER INSTALL ON PARROT OS

This is a tricky one. Getting your NVidia 1080 Ti drivers installed and running on Parrot OS can be a pain. These directions are how to install them on a bare metal system

Open a terminal
Type:
sudo bash
Enter your password

nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
Add the following to the file:
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off
Save the file, exit, and reboot your system

Once back on the desktop
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo bash
Enter your password
apt-get update && apt install nvidia-driver
Type y when prompted
reboot

Once back on the desktop
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo bash
Enter your password
apt install -y ocl-icd-libopencl1 nvidia-cuda-toolkit
Type y when prompted
reboot

Once back on the desktop
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo bash
Enter your password
nvidia-smi – this will show your card now
hashcat -b – this will run hashcat for your system to show benchmarks

That’s it!

The hardware that I used in this guide:
Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (QTY 6):
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Motherboard (QTY 1): 
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CPU (QTY 1): 
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Memory (QTY 1): 
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Hard Drive (QTY 1):  
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Risers (QTY 6):  
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Power Supplies (QTY 2):
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Add2PSU (QTY 1):
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Power Switch (QTY 1):  
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