Installation

WINDOWS HOST

• Assuming you have a windows machine with ubuntu installed in virtual box and enabled openssh server so that we can take SSH of the VM

• Now, extract the file SiAAA-Windows.zip and you will find two archives in it. One is for Windows machine and other is for Ubuntu VM

• Extract SiAAA-Host and you will see this

  

• First step will be to install the font. I Fira Code, so I added that in the package but you can download any other font of your choice but it should be a Nerd Font. This is because the font ligatures can render emojis and other images which will make our terminal visually appealing

• Once done, open Windows Terminal and set this font as

  "fontFace": "FiraCode NF",
  "fontWeight": "bold",
  "fontSize": 14,
  

  It should look like

  

  

• Once done, save the notepad file and close it.

• Now, set the execution policy in powershell to allow scripts to run. Copy-paste below on the terminal

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope CurrentUser

• Then run the powershell script install_SiAAA.ps1

• This will come up as

  

• Now the script will ask details like:

  • Hostname of the VM : server
  • IP of the VM to SSH : 192.168.19.131
  • Port for SSH : 22
  • Username to SSH : user

  You can set these values as per your VM and it will show as

  

  Make sure that Ubuntu VM is running before running the script because the installer will generate new keys and add it to the VM so that you can have passwordless entry

• Once done, restart the terminal or open a new tab and type SiAAA

  

• You can see the commands as :

  • ssh -hostName b0x : SSH to the VM
  • Send-Data -filename <filename> -hostName box : Send data to VM and save it in $HOME of the VM
  • Get-Data -filename <filename> -hostName box : Get data from VM from $HOME folder only

GOOD NEWS : Above three commands supports argument-based tab completion

LINUX HOST

• Assuming that you have a Linux(Ubuntu) machine with virtualization software installed (VirtualBox) and you have UbuntuServer (tested on this) installed as Guest OS and enabled openssh server so that we can take SSH of the VM
• If above is true, then the steps are as follows:

  • Extract the SiAAA-Linux.tar.xz file

    

  • Install the font just like how we did it in windows and change the font on the terminal for better rendering

  • Run the script install_SiAAA

    

    

    

  • This will install all the dependencies and when once done, restart the terminal and type SiAAA

    

  • For data transfer, we are using my LazySSH script which will create mount points on either side for data transfer

  • Type ssh-mount -n server. Here server is the hostname we initially gave to do ssh

  • This will create Local_server and Remote_server mount points

    

    

    

  • Now you can directly copy-paste data to Local_server and it will get reflected to Remote_server and vice versa

SiAAA-VM

• This is same for both the platforms because now we are going to install all the tools inside the VM. The platform specific changes are very few

• From Windows host, you can use the command Send-Data to send SiAAA-VM.tar.gz to the VM

• From Linux host, you can use ssh-mount folder to dump the file so that it can be shared between host and guest

• Now that the file is inside Ubuntu VM, extract it using tar -xvf SiAAA-VM.tar.gz and cd to SiAAA-VM and run the script ./SiAAA

• Now this will take time because this will auto-install all the dependencies and do full system upgrade as well. You need to be patient for (30 min)

  

  

  

• Now here the script will prompt you to add IP. This IP is to export X11 from Ubuntu VM to host Windows machine so that you can run GUI based applications like jadx-gui and others.

• Here you can give IP of your Windows machine LAN/WLAN interface IP and allow firewall rule (if prompted) so that VM can access it to forward X11. This will not be there when you use Linux host

  

  Also make sure that you run GWSL before running any GUI apps because you need to enable X11 on host also

• The script will ask you to restart the terminal mutiple times while installing NVM

  

  For this you need to logout ssh and login back

• Once you re-run the script it will install nvm, node and npm

• This is how SiAAA menu looks like after installing all the dependencies

  

• You have an option to either install all the tools in one go or you can install them one by one

• You also have an option to customize your terminal which will make your terminal more colorful, add new visuals and adds a lot to your VIM making it a perfect IDE for script writing