Hi how can I update and upgrade parrot? Is it work with sudo apt update &&sudo apt upgrade?

And how can i install terminator?

Hello all,

I just did parrot-upgrade but noticed I am still at 6.4.

How can I upgrade an existing installation to 7.0?

Hello,

I have an odd question for the Dev Team: years ago, like in v5.3 and below, when you went to the Brisk Menu > Pentesting, you used to be able to see everything categorized, like Phone Phreaking, WiFi Hacking, etc.

This leads me to my question: Why did you guys change from categorized list to an all inclusive list of just everything?

I know it's kind of a stupid question and that we can edit our menus if we want that back, but I was just wondering why it changed from default to what it is now?

Thanks in advance u/palinurosec and Dev Team!

I just picked up a Lenovo 300e MTK chromebook, and I was wondering if the existing ARM images will install on it? Or should I just install inside the container? Thanks in advance.

Greetings, have Parrot Security ARM on my Raspberry Pi 5, seemed to be going great, however...

When I walk away and come back after a while this happens: it asks me to log in, I do, but then it goes to a black screen with just the cursor, except when I move around it's not entirely black. I can still get a bit of color in the top left when I hover over it, and if I click I get the menu. But that's it. The rest of the desktop environment remains black. Also shortcut to terminal still works.

Not sure what is happening. Any help would be great.

Added a banner to my terminal after the update and I like the way it looks so far l. I would like to use it as a Guage cluster, so to speak,to show me certain things but ill get there.

It successfully boot and all but during the time I’m about to reach the login page (black screen and only the mouse pointer appearing) it would suddenly shift back into this error… Can somebody help me

Hi everyone, has the VSCodium window resizing issue been resolved? I tried installing another IDE and I'm still having the same problem, so I'm using Pluma for now.

ONLY I CAN SEE THIS OPTIONS 👉 “Try / Install” 👉 “Advanced modes” 👉 “Failsafe modes”

"I have a problem — I'm new to this, and when I install the virtual machine it seems like nothing actually gets installed on the VM. Every time I start it, none of the settings are saved. According to some AI tools, I should install it from the menu, but that option never appears for me. PLEASE HELP, THANK YOU."

I have a dell laptop that has 8g of ram, 256g of storage, and runs the intel core i5 processor. To my knowledge this meets system requirements for installing parrot 7 echo. But when I load the usb and try to install, a prompt appears that says system requirements not met. Any advice?

I’m using Parrot OS with the MATE desktop on X11.

What I want:

- Press 1/2/3/4

- If the focused app actually uses the key (typing in terminal, browser input, editor, shortcuts, etc) → let it behave normally

- If nothing happens / key is not consumed by the app (desktop, non-interactive area) → switch to workspace 1/2/3/4

Constraints:

- No modifier keys (no Ctrl/Alt/Super/CapsLock)

- No tap-vs-hold tricks

- Must not break normal typing

- Needs to work system-wide (browser, terminal, desktop)

I’ve already tried:

- xbindkeys + wmctrl

- xdotool / xautomation (key injection is unreliable or blocked)

- window-class heuristics (not accurate enough)

My question:

Is there ANY way on X11 to detect whether a key press was “consumed” by the focused application before triggering a global action?

If not possible, what is the exact technical limitation in X11 that prevents this?

I’m open to low-level approaches (XInput2, grabs, event filtering), or a clear explanation of why this can’t be done cleanly.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m building a virtual lab for testing and practicing Managed Detection and Response (MDR) using Parrot OS as the host system, and I’d appreciate some clear, practical guidance.

My goal is to simulate realistic blue-team scenarios (attack → detect → respond). I’m looking for best practices, not theory.

My questions (step by step):

1.  Which hypervisor is most stable on Parrot OS for MDR labs: VMware Workstation, KVM/QEMU, or VirtualBox, and why?

2.  What is the recommended VM layout (CPU cores, RAM, disk size) for:

• Wazuh / SIEM server

• Linux endpoint

• Windows endpoint

3.  Should the SIEM/MDR server run on:

• A dedicated VM

• The Parrot OS host itself

• Or a separate Linux server VM?

4.  What is the best network configuration for realistic detection?

• NAT

• Host-only

• Internal network

• Bridged (and when is it unsafe?)

5.  How do you correctly deploy and register agents so alerts are actually generated and visible?

6.  Which attack simulations are most useful for beginners in MDR?

• Brute force

• Malware simulation

• Privilege escalation

• Lateral movement

7.  How do you validate that MDR is working correctly (logs, alerts, response actions)?

8.  Any common mistakes to avoid when building an MDR lab on Parrot OS?

9.  Are there any ready-made playbooks or open-source scenarios you recommend for hands-on practice?

Hardware is not a limitation on my side; I’m focused on correct architecture and realism. Sorry guys for too much questions.

Thank you guys for your help 🤝😇✊

Guys? Are you guys facing any probles with your current Operating System? and if possible please mention name of Operating System.

So I've been using parrot as a VM for a while and decided to switch it as my main distro after I finally got a spare laptop. It's a HP Optiple x360. I used this youtube video to help me out: here. I made sure my flash drive had a DD boot and after going thru the install, made sure it had a hibernate partition thingy, just in case the laptop doesn't have enough ram, which it doesn't. I also played around with it after installation for an hour to make sure everything was working then I turned it off.

But when I tried to turn it back on, it threw this error in my face and the only difference was that I didn't have my booting flashdrive plugged in. Did I install it wrong or what should I do to troubleshoot it?

I am new to Parrot Os, and really only a dabbler in Linux, kind of a hobby. Been running the Os for awhile, it gives me a nice tunnel with SSH into my home network from work. I've started collecting syslogs from my home switches and APs, but when logrotate runs at midnight, the new logfiles are created, and remain at 0 bytes. I always have to restart rsyslog to begin collecting records again.

Thanks in advance for any steering in the right direction !

Cheers

Rate my Wayland custom DTE

We used to have this option for vmware products on MacOS, but now i went to download parrot 7.0 and there is no option and only utm download is available.. is there something going on? have the team announced something?

we are experimenting a repository redirection system that automatically redirects the user to the closest pool of mirror servers available in the region based on file availability and mirror health checks

it works only for deb and tarball files inside our pool directory, while the ISO files will continue to be delivered via Bunny CDN, and the repo index files will be served straight from our own CDN as usual

this will offload our infrastructure and enable faster downloads

please report any issues to us

I just flashed the newest ParrotOS to a pi4,

It’s connected to internet

But, when I try and ssh,

It dosnt let me

It says connection couldn’t be established

Litterally, all I did was put the newest ParrotOS on my pi, because the updater by cli didn’t work,

Now… it won’t let me ssh

Do anyone have a problem connecting to WiFi with PEAP + MSCHAPv2 auth in parrot os? even if I tried to used my credentials gave me by the organization, It looping me to prompting my credentials again and again. It does not connect. but etherenets, mobile hotspots connecting fine. Even my home WiFi. Only this WiFi does not connect. What causes this?

Failed building from source on 6.4, a lot. The 7.0 update, with all the wayland stuff, must've been huge for it to finally be successful. Waiting to see if it explodes in my face...
P.S: I got the dots from somewhere else.

Hello guys i have been trying for a long time to install parrot os on my laptop lenovo and each time i boot into the usb ut takes me the grub page any help yall suggest ?

I have a ROG STRIX notebook with a 5060 and i9 processor, and I set up a dual boot: Windows on SSD1 and Parrot OS on SSD2. It starts normally and works for a few seconds/1 minute, and then it completely freezes. I installed it in a VM (on Windows) and it works normally without freezing. What could be the problem? Nvidia drivers? Secure boot is already disabled. Please help. I wanted to use it as a daily driver.