Kali Linux : Sources.list And Manual Update

We’ve seen many people break their Kali Linux installations by following unofficial advice, or arbitrarily populating their sources.list file with unneeded repositories. The following post aims to clarify what repositories should exist in sources.list, and when they should be used.

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

NOTE : AFTER EDITING YOUR SOURCES LIST DO : 

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

Regular repositories

On a standard, clean install of Kali Linux, you should have the following two entries present in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

You can find a list of official Kali Linux mirrors here.

Source repositories

In case you require source packages, you might also want to add the following repositories as well:

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

Bleeding Edge repositories

If you have a need for bleeding edge repositories, you can add the following entry. Do not add this repo “for the heck of it” – it’s called “bleeding edge” for a reason. Packages in this repository are NOT manually maintained (they are auto-generated), and are low priority in general.

deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main
#deb-src http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-bleeding-edge main