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0000646Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2013-10-12 10:302025-07-14 09:36
Reporterfpalazzo Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Platformx86OSKaliOS Version1.0
Product Version1.0.5 
Summary0000646: VirtualBox Guest Additions
Description

After update and upgrade all packages/distro via APT, I need to install new linux headers to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions using the command:

apt-get update && apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)

The error message is:

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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-headers-3.10-3-686-pae : Depends: linux-kbuild-3.10 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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s-900

s-900

2013-10-13 14:06

reporter   ~0000990

Correct me if i'm wrong (havent seen a Kali Machine in a week), but as i remember Kali uses a 3.7 Kernel not a 3.10-3. Debian SID is using 3.10-3 at the moment so, i guess something is wrong with your sources list.
fpalazzo

fpalazzo

2013-10-13 20:35

reporter   ~0000992

Yes, Kali Linux use Linux Kali 3.7-trunk-686-pae 0000001 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 i686 GNU/Linux; but now there is an update to 3.10 Kernel.

The source list is correct and all links are on kali.org domain.
rhertzog

rhertzog

2013-10-14 06:53

administrator   ~0000995

You're probably using "kali-dev" in your sources.list... there's a kernel update in preparation but it's not tested/done yet, so it has not been moved to "kali" proper. There's a reason why it's called "kali-dev" and you should not use it if you're not a Kali developer or contributor.

Anyway I uploaded linux-tools-kali_3.10-4kali1.dsc which should get built shortly and will fix your issue in kali-dev.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-10-12 10:30 fpalazzo New Issue
2013-10-13 14:06 s-900 Note Added: 0000990
2013-10-13 20:35 fpalazzo Note Added: 0000992
2013-10-14 06:53 rhertzog Note Added: 0000995
2013-10-14 06:53 rhertzog Status new => closed
2013-10-14 06:53 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2013-10-14 06:53 rhertzog Resolution open => fixed
2025-07-14 09:36 g0tmi1k Priority high => normal