Mirrors

The Parrot Project not only delivers a ready-to-use system in the ISO format, but it also provides a vast amount of additional software that can be installed apart from the official parrot repository.

The Parrot repository is used to provide officially supported software, system updates and security fixes.

The mirrors network

The software in the parrot archive is delivered in form of deb packages, and these packages are served through a vast network of mirror servers that provide the same set of packages distributed all around the world for faster software delivery.

The Parrot system is configured to use the central parrot archive directors. The Parrot directors are special servers that collect all the requests of the end users and redirect them to the geographically nearest download server available for the user who made the request.

If you want and can, you can make your own mirror for Parrot following this procedure.

Security measures​

The Parrot Mirror Network is secured by centralized digital signatures and the mirrors can't inject fake updates.

If an evil mirror tries to inject a fake package, the Parrot system will automatically refuse to download and install it, and will raise an alert message.

This security measure implemented in APT (the Parrot/Debian package manager) is very efficient and reliable because digital signatures are applied offline by the Parrot archive maintainer, and not by the mirror servers, ensuring direct and secure developer-to-user chain of trust.

Configuration and custom setup​

The APT package manager uses /etc/apt/sources.list and any .list file found in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.

/etc/apt/sources.list is EMPTY and the default APT configuration is located at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot.list

Content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot.list​

deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware #deb-src https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory main contrib non-free non-free-firmware #deb-src https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware #deb-src https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 

Updates/Testing purpose​

The 'parrot-updates' repository provides updates before they are made available to 'parrot'. This repo is mostly meant to be used by developers and beta testers to extensively test updates before they are migrated to the main repository.

We suggest to not enable it, as it may introduce untested bugs and make the system unstable. Updates are delivered as fast as possible (within a week), so you are not missing anything important with this disabled (unless you are a dev):

deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot lory-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 

Other mirrors for manual configuration​

Worldwide (CDN)​

NCSA (North Central and South Americas)​

EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa)​

APAC (Asia and Pacific)​

• Security measures
• Configuration and custom setup
  • Content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/parrot.list
  • Updates/Testing purpose
  • Worldwide (CDN)
  • NCSA (North Central and South Americas)
  • EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa)
  • APAC (Asia and Pacific)