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Kali is relatively new and got fewer Mirrors than some other distros. That means less
servers to download from and less servers means more people trying to download
from them and using all bandwidth. So when you type in apt-get update, you see a
slow download speed for packages. This just means youre connected to a server
thats really busy. Some users complains that nothing happens or they are not getting
any updates at all. Some got different issues like update stuck is header and doesnt
move any further.
To fix this, you need to check a few things:
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4.

Check if you have the right repositories is your /etc/apt/sources.list

Remove unwanted or unsupported repositories.
Clean apt-get cache.
Choose a fast DNS server.

To fix sources.list, follow this guide: How to add official Kali Linux Repositories?
To switch repositories to a different mirror of your choice, follow this guide: How to
change repositories to a different mirror?

Clean apt-get cache:

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Choose a proper DNS server:

Edit resolv.conf file:
leafpad /etc/resolv.conf

Enter Google DNS nameservers

Following two are Google DNS, lets face it, if Google is broken, we all think Internet is
broken. Hence the reason of using Google DNS. You can choose other DNS Server if
you want that are fast and reliable.

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nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Now save and close the file.

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Let put our changes to the test..

Do an apt-get update

and NetHunter
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apt-get update

Do and upgrade
apt-get upgrade

Finally do a distribution upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

Your download speed should be a lot better than you were getting previously.

Another solution, changing from HTTP to

REPO in sources.list file (14/02/2014)
One of the readers advised that by changing the repositories from HTTP to REPO,
he gained significant speed up. See Sameer Barhas comment below.
Use the following repositories (update your sources.list file)
## Kali Regular repositories
deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main con
trib non-free
## Kali Source repositories
deb-src http://repo.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main
contrib non-free

Instead of
## Kali Regular repositories

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

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main con
trib non-free
## Kali Source repositories
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

This change seems to boost speed as it uses slightly different repo than the usual
HTTP servers which are overloaded. Let us know how this worked for you.
In case your sources.list file is messed up or youre just not sure, what to put on
there, follow these instructions to add official Kali Linux Repositories.
(Note: The above mentioned repositories are a slightly variant of the official one, you
can choose either as they are both from Kali.org)
In case your DNS server is picking up (even Googles DNS server) a repository from
a different country(or avoid a specific country) and you would like to manually switch
repositories to a different mirror of your choice(say in same country or just something
you know working faster, follow these instruction to change repositories to a different
mirror.
Thanks for reading. Please comment your experience to make this guide better. If
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Linux apt-get slow update?
Telson Alva

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March 4, 2014 at 12:32 am

Changing from http to repo made a huge difference !!

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March 4, 2014 at 12:37 am

For me it's is different every time. Sometime http works better

sometime repo. Either way, it's good to try when download is
too slow for comfort.

meet

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March 14, 2014 at 12:17 pm

Dud you are awsm ?

neo1981

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March 30, 2014 at 3:19 am

Thanks for the repo instead of http it works like charm to me

Abhimanyu

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April 15, 2014 at 1:31 pm

Thanxx Man The Second Method Is worked For mee thanks alot

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April 15, 2014 at 6:30 pm

Thanks! Changing http to repo sources really helped!

dtouch

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May 1, 2014 at 9:25 am

Repo rocks.. changed apt-get speed from sluggish b/s to 1mb/s

chris kaprys

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May 1, 2014 at 4:52 pm

thanks for the info. still hovering between 3 KB/s and 4KB/s, with
estimates between 11 hours and 1+ days for 25MB (on a 8Mb
connection in Bangkok). i let it run all night last night, but the net
(which is always spotty) got disconnected at some point. oh
well.

imtheblacklight

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May 12, 2014 at 4:58 am

holy s*** it worked gr8 updating the sources.list was awesum

trick

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May 13, 2014 at 10:23 am

imtheblacklight :) Its awesome isnt it! I was just as surprised

when I first tried it!!!

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May 13, 2014 at 5:32 pm

Changing http to repo was awesome for me :) thanks for this nice
shares :)
Here I am looking forward for another guidance such as:
1. Is it possible to auto update the content of /etc/resolv.conf?
2. What should I do to always obtain the fastest and reliable DNS
Server and how to auto write them to /etc/resolv.conf frequently?
Thanks

Bajpan Gosh

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July 11, 2014 at 8:40 pm

sudo apt-get install resolvconf

Once you have made sure that the resolvconf is installed,
edit the configuration file using the following command:
sudo leafpad /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base
and write
domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8
domain-name-servers 8.8.4.4
Save it. Now the settings in resolv.conf will be permanent.

Mr Lee

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May 17, 2014 at 6:35 am

THANKX MATE speed shot up from a measely 10 kb/s to 290

kb/s I used the REPO trick .. awesome

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chris

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May 17, 2014 at 6:58 am

hi,
I have 2 graphic cards a built in INTEL and AMD athlon 8000
series,can i follow this method of installation of drivers without
causing ambiguity for the OS as to which card to boot from ??

asdasdffasdl

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May 20, 2014 at 3:09 am

Well changing to repo just works, was wasting my time before!

Thanks a bunch!

dext0p

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May 29, 2014 at 7:30 pm

Thanks a lot!! Changing HTTP to repo worked for me yet again

http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ kali/updates/main was slow

Ghost

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July 2, 2014 at 10:24 pm

Awesome Man!! Picked Up Speed combining Google DNS Servers

nd repo made my day :) :D
Thank U blackMORE Ops nd also Sameer

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August 26, 2014 at 10:50 pm

Changing http to repo sources really helped me , thanks a lot man

:D

0niturk

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Septemb er 19, 2014 at 3:03 pm

The DNS change worked for me. Thanks ! : )

Shubham Kumar

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Novemb er 18, 2014 at 12:47 am

It was good. and very much thanks to you to help me starting to

use kali linux.
Please add more posts for beginners. Thanks in advance.

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