apt-get cannot update after fresh install

[Dave_NoSleepOwl]

Hi,

I've installed the Kali 2016.1 I downloaded today and went through the verification before installing. After the installation, I noticed that there were nothing except 2 commented lines (with keyword "cd-rom" at the front) in the

/etc/apt/sources.list

file. Then, I added the following lines to the file:

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
# For source package access, uncomment the following line
# deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

as stated in the general-use page. When I run:

apt-get update

I keep getting the following error

E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: sub-process http received a segmentation fault

I'm pretty sure it is not an internet connection problem as I can access the internet through the browser. I tried to add the repository on another linux (ubuntu) machine and the update works fine. I'm not sure, but I suspect it has something to do with the "apt" package pre-installed. I couldn't access any network mirror while installing Kali, the return was "bad archive" no matter which mirror I choose. Could anyone tell me what I can do to fix this problem?

[calmndo]

same problem here -__-

[binpc]

same problem... can anyone show me how to fix it ?

[catscatscats]

I have the exact same problem flow as OP.

Downloaded the ISO this morning, installed in VMware Workstation Pro.
The install went mostly smoothly; however, it mentioned something about not being able to connect to the network mirrors and to check my connection, the bridged network seemed to be working as correctly, I ignored the message and proceeded.

Please advise.

[laughingman]

Do you have an ip address (ifconfig)? Can you ping to outside IP addresses (ping 8.8.8.8)? Does name resolution work (ping google.com)?

The mirrors are working just fine on this end.

[believe88]

same problem here -__-

me too! i've had a clean and smooth installation and stuck at this stage for past 2 days. Any help will be truly appreciated

[Dave_NoSleepOwl]

Yes, I do. The internet is accessible, (by ping google.com).
I'm sure the mirrors have no problem, as I can access them from my ubuntu machine.
I suspect the problem lies in the "apt" pre-installed, as it is responsible for the network mirror setting in the installation process and "apt-get update", but I have no idea how to fix it. The "apt" used in Kali is of version 1.1.10, and that in Debian is 1.0.9.8.3 which uses different libraries (like libapt-4.12 ...). I tried to reinstall "apt", but I cannot find the "apt" used in Kali.

[ScottishBen]

apt and aptitude is just a front end for dkpg. Have you tried using dpkg to re-install the apt package?

I've had a look on my box (which I last updated on Wednesday) and uname -a is returning: 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1kali1 (2016-07-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux

The .deb apt packages I have installed are:

apt_1.3~pre3_amd64.deb
apt-utils_1.3~pre3_amd64.deb

so you could try manually installing them using: $dpkg -i apt_1.3~pre3_amd64.deb

To find out where your deb packages are all living, first run $updatedb then $locate *.deb

Hope this helps

[Dave_NoSleepOwl]

Thanks ScottishBen, I just figured out how to do it

I've finally got it working, the procedure is as follows:

1. Go to apt's directory of Kali's repository directly using a browser. ( http://http.kali.org/pool/main/a/apt/ )

2. Download libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~pre3_*.deb ( where * is your required architecture )

3. Download apt_1.3~pre3_*.deb ( where * is your required architecture )

4. Open a terminal, navigate to the directory of the downloaded files above

5. Uninstall apt by apt-get remove apt, and record the packages to be removed

6. Install libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~pre3 by dpkg -i libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~pre3_*.deb

7. Install apt_1.3~pre3_*bby dpkg -i apt_1.3~pre3_*.deb

8. Run apt-get update again, it should work by now.

9. Install the packages removed in step 5.

[ScottishBen]

Learning was done, and there was much rejoicing

[tr3x]

Thanks buddy! I'm done. Your advice much appreciated.

[astacra]

I had the same problem. My solution is to ignore what this site said (http://docs.kali.org/general-use/kal...t-repositories), and move on to this:
deb http://ftp.hands.com/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

I don't know what is Hands.com. As long as it works, then i'll take it :-)

These solution didn't work for me:
1. Reinstall apt, libapt
2. Fresh install Kali Linux 2016
3. Using Kali-Sana (it fixed the error, but I couldn't get any newer update)

[ScottishBen]

I had the same problem. My solution is to ignore what this site said (http://docs.kali.org/general-use/kal...t-repositories), and move on to this:
deb http://ftp.hands.com/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

I don't know what is Hands.com. As long as it works, then i'll take it :-)

Glad it worked, and on the face of it hands.com seems legit (but not 100% sure), treating your update repos with a cavalier attitude could make you come unstuck.

[OzWiz]

Apologies for resurrecting a week old thread on my first post here but thought I'd mention another solution which worked for me - seems my skills at deciphering ScottishBen's solution were sub-par.

So....Or...

1) Open Terminal
2) leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list
3) Make sure the following is in sources.list then save...
deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
# For source package access, uncomment the following line
deb-src http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
4) Terminal: apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

[Boontong72]

In the kali-rolling, click Places on top left of the screen, Computer from drop down
/etc/apt/sources.list

make some change of the line to

deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

deb-src http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

closed all folder and open terminal to type
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

[doobypie]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I've been working through every piece of information and tutorial i can find on this subject and nothing worked.
This finally worked!

[770fs]

I know if you try the command
#apt-get clean
it might help

[Gn0m3]

Hi, Sorry for crashing on this thread but I'm also experiencing issues while triying to upgrade since today, I followed all the steps mentioned and the issue persists:

cat sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
# For source package access, uncomment the following line
# deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

apt-get update
Hit:1 http://mirror2.hackingand.coffee/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done


apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcurses-perl libcurses-ui-perl rcconf sysv-rc-conf
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
kali-desktop-common kali-desktop-gnome kali-desktop-live kali-linux kali-linux-full
libabw-0.1-1 libclang-common-3.8-dev libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-0:i386 libglib2.0-bin
libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-openssl27 libgnutls30 libgnutls30:i386
libgoffice-0.10-10 libgoffice-0.10-10-common libllvm3.8 libllvm3.8:i386 libpcre16-3 libpcre3
libpcre3:i386 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5 libsodium18 python-faraday python-lxml
python-pypdf2 python3-lxml ruby-oj
31 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,261 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libpcre16-3 amd64 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:2 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libpcre32-3 amd64 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:3 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libpcrecpp0v5 amd64 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:4 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libpcre3-dev amd64 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:5 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libpcre3 i386 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:6 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libpcre3 amd64 2:8.39-2
404 Not Found
Err:7 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libgnutls-openssl27 amd64 3.5.3-3
404 Not Found
Err:8 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libgnutls30 i386 3.5.3-3
404 Not Found
Err:9 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libgnutls30 amd64 3.5.3-3
404 Not Found
Ign:10 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kali-desktop-common all 2016.2.12
Ign:11 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kali-desktop-gnome all 2016.2.12
Ign:12 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kali-desktop-live all 2016.2.12
Err:13 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kali-linux amd64 2016.2.12
404 Not Found
Err:14 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 python-faraday amd64 2.0.0-0kali3
404 Not Found
Err:15 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 kali-linux-full amd64 2016.2.12
404 Not Found
Err:16 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libabw-0.1-1 amd64 0.1.1-3
404 Not Found
Err:17 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libclang-common-3.8-dev amd64 1:3.8.1-9
404 Not Found
Err:18 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libllvm3.8 i386 1:3.8.1-9
404 Not Found
Err:19 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libllvm3.8 amd64 1:3.8.1-9
404 Not Found
Err:20 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libglib2.0-dev amd64 2.48.1-3
404 Not Found
Err:21 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libglib2.0-bin amd64 2.48.1-3
404 Not Found
Err:22 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libglib2.0-0 i386 2.48.1-3
404 Not Found
Err:23 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libglib2.0-0 amd64 2.48.1-3
404 Not Found
Ign:24 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libglib2.0-data all 2.48.1-3
Ign:25 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libgoffice-0.10-10-common all 0.10.32-1
Err:26 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libgoffice-0.10-10 amd64 0.10.32-1
404 Not Found
Err:27 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 libsodium18 amd64 1.0.11-1
404 Not Found
Err:28 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 python-lxml amd64 3.6.4-1
404 Not Found
Ign:29 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 python-pypdf2 all 1.26.0-1kali1
Err:30 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 python3-lxml amd64 3.6.4-1
404 Not Found
Err:31 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 ruby-oj amd64 2.17.3-1
404 Not Found
Err:10 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 kali-desktop-common all 2016.2.12
404 Not Found
Err:11 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 kali-desktop-gnome all 2016.2.12
404 Not Found
Err:12 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 kali-desktop-live all 2016.2.12
404 Not Found
Err:24 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libglib2.0-data all 2.48.1-3
404 Not Found
Err:25 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 libgoffice-0.10-10-common all 0.10.32-1
404 Not Found
Err:29 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 python-pypdf2 all 1.26.0-1kali1
404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...39-2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...39-2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...39-2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...39-2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....39-2_i386.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...39-2_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....3-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...5.3-3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....3-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...6.2.12_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...6.2.12_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...6.2.12_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2.12_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...ali3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...2.12_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-9_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...8.1-9_i386.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-9_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...8.1-3_i386.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....1-3_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...48.1-3_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...0.32-1_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...32-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...11-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....4-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/...1kali1_all.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....4-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/....3-1_amd64.deb 404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?


Any Ideas?

Regards.

Gn0m3

[ScottishBen]

So, first things first, can you visit http://http.kali.org/kali in the browser? What about clicking through the subdirs?