Package: openssh-client / openssh-client-gssapi
Version: 1:10.4p1-5
Architecture: amd64
Related: kali-system-core, kali-linux-core, tasksel

PROBLEM

"Select and install software" fails on every netinst GUI install,
whether I select all, some, or none of the options on that screen:

E: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting assignments:

1. kali-linux-core:amd64=2026.3.3 is selected for install
2. kali-linux-core:amd64 Depends kali-system-core
   • kali-system-core:amd64 Depends openssh-client-gssapi
     • openssh-client-gssapi:amd64 is not selected for install because:
       1. openssh-client:amd64=1:10.4p1-5 is selected for install
       2. openssh-client-gssapi:amd64 Conflicts openssh-client
          tasksel: apt-get failed (100)

REPRODUCIBILITY: always.

FACTS

With only the kali-rolling mirror in sources.list, no media entry:

apt-cache show openssh-client | grep ^Priority

Priority: standard

apt-cache show openssh-client-gssapi | grep ^Priority

Priority: optional

tasksel --task-packages standard | grep -i ssh

openssh-common
openssh-client

apt-get install -s openssh-client kali-linux-core

[same conflict as above]

So this reproduces from the mirror alone, with no media involved.

MY HYPOTHESIS (unverified)

I think the tasksel "standard" task is the trigger: it requires
openssh-client because of that package's priority, which blocks
openssh-client-gssapi and therefore kali-system-core. That would make any
install including the standard task unsatisfiable, and would also explain
why deselecting all, some or none of the items on the software selection screen does not
help, since the standard task is not offered there.

SUGGESTED FIX

Raise openssh-client-gssapi to Priority: standard and lower
openssh-client to optional, so the tasksel "standard" task pulls the
package kali-system-core requires.

WORKAROUND

Let the step fail, Ctrl+Alt+F2, then:

chroot /target /bin/bash
sed -i '/^deb cdrom:/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -y openssh-client-gssapi
apt-get install -y kali-linux-core kali-desktop-gnome
exit

Then Ctrl+Alt+F1, "Install the GRUB boot loader", and finish. Installing
openssh-client-gssapi first prevents openssh-client from being selected.
The resulting system works normally.

uname -a
Linux kali 7.1.5+kali-amd64 0000001 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 7.1.5-1kali1 (2026-07-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version:
Version: 2.43-4

Installed as a vm in VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 on Windows 11.