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muhackl666
2017-01-27, 07:52
Dear Kali community,

I'm using Kali Nethunter 3.15 on my Nexus 6 (Android 7.0).
When trying to add a metapackage (kali-linux-web), I get a lot of 404 errors.
E.g. W: Failed to fetch http://security.kali.org/dists/sana/updates/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found

My sources.list reads:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali sana/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali sana/updates main non-free contrib

and I even added:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main non-free contrib

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks and best regards
Muhackl

sungod88
2017-01-31, 18:13
Change the source to the Rolling Kali distro and it will update.

muhackl666
2017-02-01, 06:26
Do you mean
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
If yes - please see my post above - I already added it but had no success.

sungod88
2017-02-01, 14:16
Did you try to run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade from the kali terminal?

TecholoTV
2017-02-27, 07:33
Dear Kali community,

I'm using Kali Nethunter 3.15 on my Nexus 6 (Android 7.0).
When trying to add a metapackage (kali-linux-web), I get a lot of 404 errors.
E.g. W: Failed to fetch http://security.kali.org/dists/sana/updates/non-free/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found

My sources.list reads:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali sana/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali sana/updates main non-free contrib

and I even added:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main non-free contrib

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks and best regards
Muhackl

1. Change you repos to the offical kali rolling dists.
2. Run apt-get upgrade
3. Run apt-get update
4. Thus is what people forget: run apt-get dist- upgrade

Done! :)