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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0008081Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2022-12-03 19:072022-12-06 05:53
Reportermantic0re Assigned Toarnaudr  
PriorityhighSeverityblockReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionnot fixable 
Product Version2022.3 
Summary0008081: apt-upgrade not working due to multiple 404s
Description

I am running Kali 2022.3 in a VM using KVM. After I login 'sudo apt-get update' will work, but 'sudo apt-get upgrade' will only install about 20% of packages and return 404 on everything else with the following IP failing '192.99.200.113 443'. I am using the default /etc/apt/sources.list configuration. Switching to 'last-snapshot' repo didn't help.

As I was not even able to install python3 or golang and this issues has rendered the distro unusable for me. I've found that many other people in the forums have been complaining of similar issues, but was not able to find any solution that worked.

P.S.
The fact that apt-get will only try one mirror and not try the second closest mirror if the first one fails is really annoying. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a mirror problem that wouldn't have existed if we had a package manager that is capable of using more than one mirror.

Steps To Reproduce
  1. Install Kali Linux in a KVM
  2. Open Terminal
  3. 'sudo apt-get update'

  4. 'sudo apt-get upgrade'

    This might be a regional issue as some users have reported that using a VPN resolves the problem so possibly try this from various regions.

Activities

mantic0re

mantic0re

2022-12-03 20:24

reporter   ~0017131

Turns out the local mirror was in very poor shape. Changing the mirror manually in /etc/apt/sources.list resolved the issue.
We really need a package manager that can do this automatically.
arnaudr

arnaudr

2022-12-06 05:53

manager   ~0017144

You can use the mirror kali.download, which is in fact a CDN. It should give good performance pretty much everywhere in the world. You can change it via the kali-tweaks program.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2022-12-03 19:07 mantic0re New Issue
2022-12-03 20:24 mantic0re Note Added: 0017131
2022-12-06 05:53 arnaudr Note Added: 0017144
2022-12-06 05:53 arnaudr Assigned To => arnaudr
2022-12-06 05:53 arnaudr Status new => closed
2022-12-06 05:53 arnaudr Resolution open => not fixable