The latest Debian distro has no problem with curl by using -s
I've tested on Ubuntu 20.10 too, and there everything is ok
BR

Everything is ok, but when I've decided to reinstall the OS, something is not ok with your repo mirrors for upgrading the OS.
So, you should check that how properly upgrade your product Kali Linux, before I do this I detect a lot of libraries were broken after upgrading the OS.
KR V.Varbanovski @nu11secur1ty System Administrator Infrastructure engineer.

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?

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