What have you tried:
What is the error: Reading package lists… Error!
What device is this on:
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Can you please share a lot more detail?
I saw this in the Kali News/Forum
"This is not only you, this is for everyone, and this is entirely our fault. We lost access to the signing key of the repository, so we had to create a new one. At the same time, we froze the repository (you might have noticed that there was no update since Friday 18th), so nobody was impacted yet. But we’re going to unfreeze the repository this week, and it’s now signed with the new key.
As a result, there’s a bit of manual work for you. You need to download and install this new key manually, as such:"
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo wget https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg
If you prefer using curl, that’s just as easy:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo curl https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg
I entered the command and got this:
sudo wget https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg
[sudo] password for _____
–2025-06-30 11:08:01-- https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg
Resolving archivekaliorg (archivekaliorg)… 2607:5300:60:508c::, 192.99.45.140
Connecting to archivekaliorg (archivekaliorg)|2607:5300:60:508c::|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3464 (3.4K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘/usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg’
/usr/share/keyrin 100%[==========>] 3.38K --.-KB/s in 0s
2025-06-30 11:08:02 (62.8 MB/s) - ‘/usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg’ saved [3464/3464]
But when I tried using apt update & apt upgrade commands I still got the error message. I tried apt full-upgrade
with --fix-missing
but still got error message.
This was 3 months ago.. why are you replying to it?
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