Thursday, March 21, 2013

Repositories are slow in Kali?? Seems so...


These are the contents of my "/etc/apt/sources.list" in Kali Linux :

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130315-11:02]/ kali contrib main non-free
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130315-11:02]/ kali contrib main non-free
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
## Security updates
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

Seems like these softwares mirrors on kali.org are too slow coz I'm getting something like a 100 kb/s of speed which rarely goes to 300 kb/s at times. Even though the other linux repo's serve my software requests at around 800-900 kb/s. You can observe the same thing when you're trying to download Kali from the official site. Seems like they have a bandwidth issue.
Use Alt Download mirrors at other locations when you're downloading Kali ISO.

2 comments:

  1. change repositories to a different high speed mirror...and voila

    and here is your tutorial .. good luck..

    http://www.blackmoreops.com/2013/11/14/change-repositories-different-mirror/

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  2. Change HTTP to REPO in your sources list

    leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list

    instead of:
    deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

    use:
    deb http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

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