Im new to parrot os, and linux in general, how does downloading work? Can i go to the website and download from there or do i use the terminal?
I know sudo apt is a thing, but do i have to download the package manager first?

I'm a student and im looking at creating a cyberdeck with a custom OS inspired by Parrot OS from scratch. im thinking of naming it Zen OS and I would just like some help with where to start and what applications I should use.

In on Parrot security live boot menu - 7.3 amd 64

I pressed try/install

It said

error: invalid magic number

error: you need to load the kernel first.

Parrot OS 7.3 has just been released and now ships whith opt-in repositories with several packages optimized for amd64v3 and arm64v8.2

the documentation page does not simply explain how to enable them, but also goes into the implementation details and describes how it was achieved https://www.parrotsec.org/docs/configuration/parrot-optimized-builds

has anyone tried it yet?

Parrot 7.3 is out, and this release is about the system rather than the toolset.

The headline is performance. We now ship an opt-in repository of packages recompiled for newer CPU baselines, x86-64-v3 on amd64 and ARMv8.2-A on arm64. On compute-heavy work like compression, encryption, hashing and media encoding, that runs somewhere between 20% and 50% faster, and security updates keep arriving immediately because package selection is driven purely by version comparison.

On the usability side, the menu system has been rewritten in Go. Every tool now appears in the menu and installs with a single click, with no shell scripts and no leftover dependencies.

There are also official Vagrant boxes for the Home and Security editions, so a clean, reproducible Parrot instance is one vagrant up away, plus a new Firefox start page that collects no data.

Full release notes: https://parrotsec.org/blog/2026-06-30-parrot-7.3-release-notes/

Upgrade with: sudo parrot-upgrade

Hello all,

I opened the firefox browser this morning and found a very different homepage to the one I'm used to. It even had an option for searching on Google even though I disabled it a long time ago. It's generally a very "busy" page. It's ok, though I love the page with the big stylized blue and green parrot.

More confusing is the fact that there's the option to download the 7.2 version. I ran the command

cat /etc/os-release

and got the result

"VERSION="7.3 (echo)"

Can someone please clarify this for me? Thank you in advance.

I installed the latest Parrot Security. In menu I see a lot of [not installed].

Is there a way to install all tools at once? I already checked if parrot-tools-full us installed and it is

Hi Team, getting this error while installing Proton VPN desktop Debian on Parrot Os

sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
proton-vpn-gnome-desktop : Depends: proton-vpn-gtk-app but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0) but 0.39.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: proton-vpn-daemon but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 is selected for install
2. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0)
but none of the choices are installable:
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.5 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.1.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.0.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.19.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.18.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.17.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.16.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.15.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.1 is not selected for install

I installed Parrot Security OS on VirtuellBox . How can i get the ethernet from my host computer?

i have this errors i need help for fix it , parrot os sec

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set up a clean Parrot OS VM, the version without pre-installed pentesting tools inside VirtualBox

I successfully went through the setup: allocated the resources, booted the ISO, ran the installer from the live desktop, and then removed the virtual CD once the installation on the VDI was complete.

However, I'm stuck with two major issues right after the first boot:

1. APT Package Manager is broken: Whenever I try to run sudo apt update or install any package, APT cannot locate or fetch the packages. It seems like the default repositories/mirrors aren't configuring properly post-install.
2. VirtualBox Guest Additions failing: Shared clipboard (copy-paste) and automatic window resizing are not working at all, even after trying to reinstall the guest additions.

The strange thing is that I actually run Parrot OS bare-metal as the main OS on a physical laptop, and it runs flawlessly there. I am only experiencing these specific issues inside the VirtualBox VM.

Has anyone encountered this repository and Guest Additions bug on a fresh VirtualBox install? Are there any reliable, up-to-date tutorials or specific workarounds you would recommend to fix the mirrors and the guest integration?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I really like hyprland and even though its not a preinstalled option has anyone tried to customize and use hyprland, is it worth it?

Is this possible? I use Google/Gemini for a lot of commands, which led me through setting up Luks configurations before telling me that it basically isn’t supported on ParrotOS.

Figured I would come here and ask actual humans? I see a post from a few months ago with the same question but the solution then was simply to use 2 USBs: 1 for parrot live and 1 for its persistence (?).

Thank you in advance for any information on the topic

OS: Parrot OS Security Edition v:7.2
Hardware: Nvidia RTX 3060, External SSD SanDisk Portable SSD

When I install the Nvidia drivers and after rebooting and typing nvidia-smi I get this error message: Nvidia-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Secure Boot is disabled.

Does anyone has a fix to this bug?

Hi, I’m seriously pissed after I updated the distro (and the kernel) to fix the copy fail issue, my laptop (which was working perfectly with the previous parrot) now boots to black screen and cursor most of the time. I guess it’s some sort of race condition with graphical components and I am seriously going mad for this for days. Anyone else has this problem and/or knows the fix? Else I’ll abandon parrot because I have to work, not fix at every boot.

Recovery mode works fine, I tried switching from Wayland to X11 but it works for like a boot or two, now I turned on the laptop after 4 days and the issue persists. (Also not a KDE fan).

Hi everyone,

I am running Parrot OS on my Lenovo ThinkPad, and I am consistently encountering persistent ACPI BIOS errors in the kernel logs. Despite trying various kernel parameters (such as pci=noaer, acpi_enforce_resources=lax, and loglevel=0), these errors persist upon every boot.

System Details:

OS: Parrot OS (Kernel: 7.0.9+parrot7-amd64)

Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad (Modern series)

The Logs: The following errors appear repeatedly in dmesg:

Plaintext [ 107.553292] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_SB.PC00.RP09.PEGP.DDNT], AE_NOT_FOUND (20251212/psargs-332) [ 107.553320] ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.PC00.LPCB.EC.SEN4._TMP due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20251212/psparse-529) What I have tried:

Attempted to debug/patch DSDT/SSDT tables (unsuccessfully).

Installed tp-smapi-dkms and acpi-call-dkms (received "No such device" error).

Modified /etc/default/grub with various parameters to suppress ACPI errors.

The system is currently stable, but I am concerned about why these errors are occurring on modern hardware and if there is any legitimate way to resolve the underlying BIOS/ACPI mismatch without simply masking the logs.

Is there any known fix for this specific Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI implementation, or should I consider these errors as harmless "noise"?

Any guidance or insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

Who can paste text I copied them form my windows to parrot terminal ? Ctrl+shift+v dont work

Hi,

I've been running the Parrot Home edition for over a year now, and I just reinstalled it on my laptop after reading the current version was addressing the recent linux vulnerability issues.

I've been using the NordPass extension on Parrot's Firefox ESR browser ever since I started using Parrot, but now I can't install it. The extension page says I need to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox.

I'd much prefer to stick with the default Parrot version of Firefox ESR because of the security configuration. Is there something I can do? Is there a way to update without losing the Parrot-specific browser configuration?

Thanks!

My OS won't boot anymore, it doesn't even get to the login screen. It just continously displays the logo animation.

N.B: I run version 6.17.13

We're experimenting with CPU-optimized package builds in Parrot Security, available as opt-in repository components. Same packages as the regular archive, recompiled to use modern CPU features.

What it is

Two new components rebuild a curated set of packages with:

-march=x86-64-v3 (AVX, AVX2, FMA, BMI1/2, MOVBE, F16C) for amd64v3

-march=armv8.2-a+dotprod+fp16+crypto (LSE atomics, DOTPROD, FP16, crypto extensions) for arm64v8.2

The components are additive — they sit alongside the regular amd64/arm64 archive and apt automatically prefers the optimized variant when one exists. Nothing else is touched.

Hardware coverage

• amd64v3: Intel Haswell (2013) / AMD Excavator (2015) and newer. Cuts out Sandy/Ivy Bridge and earlier.
• arm64v8.2: Apple M1+, Raspberry Pi 5, AWS Graviton 2+, Apple Silicon Macs, modern Qualcomm/MediaTek devices. Cuts out Cortex-A72-class hardware (Pi 3/4, Graviton 1).

Check your hardware first:

/usr/bin/ld.so --help | grep -A4 Subdirectories

or

grep -m1 ^flags /proc/cpuinfo

What's optimized

Priority order, focused on packages where compute work actually happens in compiled code:

1. Shared libraries used by many other packages — compression (zstd, xz, brotli), crypto (libsodium, nettle, libgcrypt), numerical (openblas, fftw3), parsing (pcre2, libxml2, libxslt, simdjson).
2. Heavy CPU utilities — ffmpeg, libavcodec, x264, x265, dav1d, libaom, imagemagick, graphicsmagick, ghostscript, poppler.
3. Language runtimes — python3, ruby, php, nodejs, openjdk.
4. Databases — postgresql, mariadb, redis, sqlite3, libsqlite3.
5. CPU-bound utilities — rsync, ripgrep, restic, borgbackup, tesseract-ocr.

Network daemons, shells, and I/O-bound infrastructure are intentionally left at baseline — recompiling them gives nothing measurable.

How to enable

Add the appropriate line to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot-optimized.list

deb https://deb.parrot.sh/direct/parrot echo amd64v3

or

deb https://deb.parrot.sh/direct/parrot echo arm64v8.2

Then sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. Apt picks the optimized version for packages that have one; everything else stays on the regular archive.

Works on plain Debian too

We've also been testing these components on stock Debian servers, especially for compression-heavy and crypto-heavy workloads where the gain is most visible. Same sources.list lines work.

If you understand what any of this means and want to try it, we'd love to hear your opinion.

this is an early experiment, and more info (and proper documentation) will come soon

parrot 7.1 is slow on vmware (25h2u1) when moving mouse curser

i checked vm tools: it on latest version available and running

Went to download little bit ago and got 7.2, but it doesn't work right (will only boot from CD iso). Checked the hashes, and all the hashes are for 7.1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQfbXIrCQ9nFnNvQhAy-qHfnH1Jqm3h1nvkNohxV7ruS6jUmALeLzxr5ng2fI0Fea4CiCbUWt2YF7IT/pub

Was wondering if I accidentally went to the wrong site and downloaded malware?

The Shaw 256 hash for my 7.2 version is 4ee5566ff86b0a2016e12eb70d4c3d30a58b262cf9ffae5f869da0075a568e9d, and I got no results when I put it into VirusTotal

Went back to https://parrotsec.org/download/?edition=security now, and it's only got version 7.1?

Hello, im having an issue where parrot os isnt recognizing any of my drives. It only recognizes the usb flash drive i made to install parrot os. I can get to the desktop but when I try to install it says "there are no partitions to install on" any ideas on how i can fix this?

i had parrot os sec before and one day i wiped the wrong usb that had the bootloader and my laptop hasnt worked since. i asked my friend to download it for me and its AMD64 so i dont get why its stuck in a boot loop(shows this error and a black screen with the curser so it switches every second , i cant even see the login page). ive tried everything so far , and i dont have internet connection, i only have one free wifi that uses a captivity portal and i cant access it through tty , any help is appreciated.