How to add official Kali Linux Repositories? – Kali Linux 2.x Sana repositories

Edit your sources.list

The easiest way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list

root@kali:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list
(or)
root@kali:~# leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

Add official repo’s only:

Copy paste the following repositories (remove existing lines or you can comment them out – your take). Following repo list was taken from official Kali sources.list Repositories page:

# Regular repositories
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free
# Source repositories
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free

Save and close the file.

Clean your apt-get

apt-get clean

Do an apt-get update

apt-get update

Do an upgrade

apt-get upgrade

Finally do a distribution upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

That’s it, you’re set.

Conclusion

A bit of caution for  Kali Linux 2.0 Kali Sana users, pointing to repo.kali.org or such will NOT work and might cause issues.

Don’t add extra repositories to your Kali 2.0 install

Despite what many unofficial guides instruct you to do, avoid adding extra repositories to your sources.list files. Don’t add kali-dev, kali-rolling or any other Kali repositories unless you have a specific reason to – which usually, you won’t. If you must add additional repositories, drop a new sources file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ instead. [Source: Offensive Security Blog]

If you must, (despite warning many users will be tempted), do try it in a VirtualBox/VMWare first and take snapshots so that you can roll back.

Thanks for reading. If I have made a mistake, please correct me.