Kali linux repository not found

Kali linux repository not found

The topic of repositories is always a large one, and comes up frequently. It is an item which people often get wrong and confused with. Please take the time to read the information below and any references which is linked to before acting on anything.

Default Network Repository Value

On a standard, clean install of Kali Linux, with network access, you should have the following entry present in /etc/apt/sources.list :

[email protected]:~$ grep -v '#' /etc/apt/sources.list | sort -u deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware [email protected]:~$ 

If the output doesn’t exactly match up to the above output, you may not be able to install any new additional packages or receive updates. This may happen for any number of reasons, such as:

You will probably want to read the “switching branches” section to alter this.

Since Kali 2020.3, after Kali’s setup is complete, network repositories will be enabled by default, even if there was no network access during installation.

Switching Kali Main Branch

Kali has two main branches to choose from (please take the time to read which one would be the best option for your setup):

• kali-rolling — default & frequently updated
• kali-last-snapshot — point release so more “stable” & the “safest”

Enabling the kali-rolling branch is done with the command:

[email protected]:~$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list 

Enabling the kali-last-snapshot branch is done with the command:

[email protected]:~$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-last-snapshot main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list 

Note that such a change is effective only after running sudo apt update .

Enabling Kali Additional Branches

Kali also proposes additional branches for special cases. In theory, it’s possible to enable those regardless of the main branch you use. In practice though, they are meant to be used in addition to kali-rolling . We discourage using it in addition to kali-last-snapshot unless you know exactly what you’re doing. Those additional branches are:

• kali-experimental — packages which are under testing or work in progress
• kali-bleeding-edge — packages automatically updated from upstream git repositories

Enabling or disabling those branches is best done using the command-line tool kali-tweaks , under the Network Repositories section:

If you prefer, you can also enable those branches manually from the command-line. For example, enabling kali-experimental is done with the command:

[email protected]:~$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-experimental main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-experimental.list 

Note that in the command above, we don’t modify the file /etc/apt/sources.list , but instead we create a new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-experimental.list . This is a convention: the file /etc/apt/sources.list should only contain the main branch, while additional branches should go in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ , one branch per file.

If you follow this convention, then disabling the kali-experimental branch is straightforward:

[email protected]:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-experimental.list 

The branch kali-bleeding-edge can be enabled with a similar command, we just need to change the name of the branch:

[email protected]:~$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-bleeding-edge.list 

To disable kali-bleeding-edge :

[email protected]:~$ sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kali-bleeding-edge.list 

Sources.list Format

• Archive is going to be deb (Regular Binary) or deb-src (Source), depending if you want a package or the source of the package.
• Mirror should be http://http.kali.org/kali as this is our load balancer, which will direct you to best mirror.
• Branch is what version of Kali you wish to use.
• Components are what packages you wish to use, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). Kali defaults to everything.

Default Offline Install Values

During the Kali setup process, if you don’t have access to a network connection to reach a repository, you will perform an offline installation of Kali Linux. You will be limited to the packages & the version which is on the medium you installed Kali from. This will then configure Kali to continue to use this medium to install packages from, even after Kali has been installed.

This means you will not get any updates to packages, or any new additional tools, which can be frustrating. You can see if you the offline media enabled if your values match up with what’s below (or if you want to enable this option):

[email protected]:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Kali GNU/Linux 2020.1a _Kali-last-snapshot_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20200213-14:56]/ kali-rolling main non-free #deb cdrom:[Kali GNU/Linux 2020.1a _Kali-last-snapshot_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20200213-14:56]/ kali-rolling main non-free # This system was installed using small removable media # (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom" # entries were disabled at the end of the installation process. # For information about how to configure apt package sources, # see the sources.list(5) manual. [email protected]:~$ [email protected]:~$ sudo apt-cdrom add Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/ Identifying. [ea19ff4bedaa6c8f4662c0e8c58ed44c-2] Scanning disc for index files. Found 2 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0 signatures This disc is called: 'Kali GNU/Linux 2020.1a _Kali-last-snapshot_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20200213-14:56' Reading Package Indexes. Done Writing new source list Source list entries for this disc are: deb cdrom:[Kali GNU/Linux 2020.1a _Kali-last-snapshot_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20200213-14:56]/ kali-rolling main non-free Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set. [email protected]:~$ 

If your output matches what’s above, please see the switching branch section, if you wish to receive updates.

However, if you do have network connection, which has access to network repositories, it will be enabled for you. You don’t need to do anything.

Non-Kali Repositories

If you want to install additional tools and software (such as signal) outside of what Kali has to offer, you may need to include an extra repository for this to happen. Please do not alter /etc/apt/sources.list , as this is used for the Kali Linux Operating System. Any extra tools and software needs to be placed into their own file in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ (such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/repo-name.list , replacing repo-name with the mirror name). It is highly recommended that each mirror should be in its own file.

By adding Kali’s repository to a non-Kali OS (such as trying to add Kali to Ubuntu), this will highly increase the chance of your system not working. It may not happen straight away, but without any warning, it may break. We will not be able to offer support (and based on what we have seen over the years, most other OS will not help too).

Likewise, adding other operating system’s repositories into Kali (such as trying to put Ubuntu on Kali), will break your installation. This is the single most common reason why Kali Linux systems break.

If any guides are telling you to do anything else than the above, this is unofficial advice, and completely not supported by Kali Linux. More often than not, users in this case end up doing a reinstall after learning this lesson.

Mirrors

We have a list of official Kali Linux mirrors, as well as a guide on how to setup your own. This may be kept as a local repository which is only accessible on a LAN, or a remote private one, or if you have the ability to, you may wish to share back to the community and make it public allowing for anyone else in your geographical area to benefit from it.

Source Repositories

By using a deb in the repositories, it will allow for binary packages to be downloaded. However, should you require the source to a package (so you can compile the package yourself if you so wish, or look into debugging a problem with a package), you can add deb-src as a extra line in the repositories:

[email protected]:~$ echo "deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list 

We used kali-rolling for the branch above, but you can select any value you wish.

Updated on: 2023-Mar-06
Author: g0tmi1k

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apt-add-repository dosen’t work in kali linux

I am running kali linux and when I try to use command sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-wv/pulseaudio-equalizer-ppa , it gives me this code:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 95, in sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__ self.reload_sourceslist() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources (self.id, self.codename)) aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Kali/kali-rolling 

1 Answer 1

This is adapted and updated from this answer by user “Interesting. ”:

Step 1

To add repositories on most (if not all) Debian-derivative systems, the main way to go about doing this is to edit your sources.list file, found in /etc/apt/sources.list . To do this, use any editor of your choice to open the file.

It should look like this if you have never modified the sources.list file, and Kali was installed correctly:

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 

Source: https://docs.kali.org/general-use/kali-linux-sources-list-repositories

Now you can add any repositories you like by adding the repository address to the next line in your sources.list file and saving. Once saved, move on to Step 2.

Step 2

The next step is to clean out all cached and non-wiped files from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ . To do this, run the command apt-get clean . Next, update your package index files (so you can install packages from the repository you added) by running apt-get update . Upgrade all installed packages so you can download dependencies and resolve out-conflicts by running apt-get upgrade . The new repository you added may have some core packages, or system applications that need to be installed, so do so by using a smart dependency conflict resolution update with apt-get dist-upgrade . You should now be ready to go.

Warnings and Other Information

Generally for Kali (and usually for Kali only) it is a very bad idea to add repositories to your system, because they might break your Kali install. Because one of the main core functionalities of Kali is all the packages that come preinstalled, in a system manner of speaking, it is very unstable. If you install one package that needs certain dependencies or updates certain dependencies to so it is not backwards compatible, then you will essentially break some (or all) of the packages preinstalled in Kali, defeating the purpose of having Kali at all. Because of this mentality, Kali has grown to become very fragile. While Kali works perfectly well out of the box or with packages that you install from the official repositories, adding repositories may potentially break your system. According to the official Kali docs,

Any additional repositories added to the Kali sources.list file will most likely BREAK YOUR KALI LINUX INSTALL.

meaning that you should generally stay away from unofficial repositories while using Kali. In fact, according to the Kali docs,

The single most common causes of a broken Kali Linux installation are following unofficial advice, and particularly arbitrarily populating the system’s sources.list file with unofficial repositories.

So, if you are following an internet tutorial or the like, be warned that adding unofficial repositories to you sources.list is the most common cause of a broken Kali system.

Final Notes

While this methods works on Debian Derivative GNU/Linux systems, it is advisable to stick with the official Kali Repositories for the most part. If you want to, certainly go ahead and add the repositories, but it is important to know what the repositories provide, and what, if any, packages will be updated when initiating apt-get upgrade , because they may break your other packages.

If you’re trying to install a certain program, I’d search for Unix-build to build on your own from source.

For more information on Kali Repositories see here:

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