PRoblem with source lsit

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2018-11-17
WantedStarling

PRoblem with source lsit

Hello, I installed kali linux from scratch on virtual box. The problem I am facing is that every time I am trying to install something I get an error message that package was not found. I edited the source list file but ended up deleting it. Then I ran this command

Code:

echo -e "deb http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib\ndeb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list

It created a new source list file with these two repo

Code:

deb http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free

Then tried again

Code:

apt-get update

But I am getting this error

Code:

E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse) E: The list of sources could not be read.

How can I fix this and restore the repo file, so I can download everything again?

Thank you for your time

Update: Reinstalling the OS fixed the problem
2018-11-20
Mister_X

What instructed to run that echo command? Sana hasn't been supported in a long while.
2018-11-21
bigbiz

Quote:

Originally Posted by WantedStarling

Hello, I installed kali linux from scratch on virtual box. The problem I am facing is that every time I am trying to install something I get an error message that package was not found. I edited the source list file but ended up deleting it. Then I ran this command

Code:

echo -e "deb http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib\ndeb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list

It created a new source list file with these two repo

Code:

deb http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free

Then tried again

Code:

apt-get update

But I am getting this error

Code:

E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse) E: The list of sources could not be read.

How can I fix this and restore the repo file, so I can download everything again?

Thank you for your time

Update: Reinstalling the OS fixed the problem

https://docs.kali.org/general-use/ka...t-repositories

Must be a old version of kali for that one.