![]() ![]() Then type in this command with the package name which you want to remove, at the end of the command and hit enter. Once you have purged the ppa, then you should purge the application, with terminal. Here is a more detailed article on all the different ways to purge a ppa There are other methods using terminal, but they require knowing the exact url address of the ppa. Once Software Sources opens, click on the tab that says "Other Software" and remove the ppa's that are giving you trouble, specifically the suru-icon-theme and whatever ppa (webupd8?) you used for the java installation. If you are using the default Unity desktop environment on Ubuntu, then search for "Software Sources". The easiest way to remove a ppa that works for me is to use the graphical interface. Or you could do the following to remove the ppa and the apps. That will have the update ignore the missing package. If you added a ppa, you might want to try purging that suru-icon-theme repository, and then the upgrade might work. If you’ve found this useful, share and follow us on Facebook/Twitter.It looks like an error for some extra repository that is corrupted. Please comment your experience to make this guide better. In case your DNS server is picking up (even Google’s 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. (Note: The above mentioned repositories are a slightly variant of the official one, you can choose either as they are both from ) In case your sources.list file is messed up or you’re just not sure, what to put on there, follow these instruction’s to add official Kali Linux Repositories. This change seems to boost speed as it uses slightly different repo than the usual HTTP servers which are overloaded. Use the following repositories (update your sources.list file) # Kali Regular repositoriesĭeb-src kali/updates main contrib non-free One of the readers advised that by changing the repositories from HTTP to REPO, he gained significant speed up. Another solution, changing from HTTP to REPO in sources.list file () ![]() Your download speed should be a lot better than you were getting previously. Do an apt-get update apt-get update Do and upgrade apt-get upgrade Finally do a distribution upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade You can choose other DNS Server if you want that are fast and reliable. ![]() 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: apt-get clean Choose a proper DNS server:Įdit nf file: leafpad /etc/nf Enter Google DNS nameserversįollowing two are Google DNS, let’s face it, if Google is broken, we all think Internet is broken. To fix sources.list, follow this guide: How to add official Kali Linux Repositories? Remove unwanted or unsupported repositories.Check if you have the right repositories is your /etc/apt/sources.list.To fix this, you need to check a few things: Some got different issues like update stuck is header and doesn’t move any further. Some users complains that nothing happens or they are not getting any updates at all. This just means you’re connected to a server that’s really busy. So when you type in apt-get update, you see a slow download speed for packages. That means less servers to download from and less servers means more people trying to download from them and using all bandwidth. Kali is relatively new and got fewer Mirrors than some other distro’s. This is a small guide on How to fix Kali Linux apt-get slow update. ![]()
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