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Kali Sana (ver. 2.0) has been out there couple of months ago and the response was great. Kali Moto (ver. 1.0) has been given 2 months of grace period to date the version to 2.0. To upgrade, edit the souces.list file and put the following entries. cat >> EOF < /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free EOF Then, run the following command to do upgrade Kali Moto to Kali Sana. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10. reboot

When we talk about update, we know that the client system is downloading an update and patches from the source(online- from the network resource or offline- cd/dvd or any other secondary source). Here, we are talking about online update only. Kali Linux is relatively new and have less mirror sites, so the less the mirror sites the more online users to access the server and utilizing all the bandwidth. When you type apt-get update  on the terminal, it searches for the relative links for update from  /etc/apt/sources.list . So, more the number of links in the repository file, the more time it will consume to search for an update. Below are the few necessary steps that you can perform to fix the issue. STEPS: 1. Check if you got the right repositories in  /etc/apt/sources.list . Please remove unwanted and un-necessary repositories from the  sources.list . Click here for more. 2. Run apt-get clean  to clear cache. 3. Run apt-get autoremove  to remove un-succes...

Hi Everyone! this is an updated post on Kali Linux repositories. Well, a repository is an archival source from where Kali Linux softwares are updated and upgraded online. sources.list  is the file where all the links for necessary update are saved. When we execute a command apt-get update , it searches for the updated package online. Un-wanted or un-necessary links can cause failure of Kali Linux package installation, so make sure what link/s should be added to the repository so that Kali Linux should get proper update.  Kali Linux distribution has three repositories, which are mirrored world-wide: http.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the main package repository ; security.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the security package repository ; cdimage.kali.org ( mirrorlist ): the repository with ISO images . On a clean installation, Kali Linux, have the following two entries present in /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib deb http://se...

GNOME Tweak Tool  is an application for changing the advanced settings of GNOME 3. Below are the features that  GNOME Tweak Tool  can perform. Reset to defaults settings Startup application management Enable Application menu Dynamic or Static Workspaces creation Disable all extensions Install/Update/Uninstall extensions Font size, hinting and anti-aliasing Icons on Desktop Clock: Show Date and Seconds To install  GNOME Tweak Tool open terminal and run apt-get update and then  apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool Once it install  GNOME Tweak Tool , run gnome-tweak-tool to run the application

1. goto http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ 2. click on 3rd party repos 3. fill the details as per your requirement and click on send 4. now select sources under Default Debian Packages and if necessary check on yes include , if source packages are required and then click generate sources.list button to generate your links 5. add them to etc/apt/sources.list 6. open root terminal and type apt-get update

Mozilla Firefox is a quite handy browser compared to Iceweasel (default browser in Kali Linux). It has lot of plug-in features that Iceweasel lag. Sometimes, we find it difficulty while navigating through Iceweasel . Hence, I thought of installing Mozilla   Firefox . To do this, you have to first un-install  Iceweasel  from Kali Linux or else it won't allow you to install  Mozilla Firefox . Here are the step that I performed. 1. Open root terminal window and type     apt-get remove iceweasel it removes  iceweasel   from the application menu 2. type  echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null it adds repository for the installation 3. type apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29 import the required gpg key 4. type apt-get update update the required package 5. type apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build install mozilla ...