Kali Linux is a penetration testing distribution made by Offensive Security. It is based on Debian, and is the child of BackTrack.
Questions tagged [kali-linux]
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        How can I get past a “Repository is not signed…” message when attempting to upgrade Kali Linux from a mounted disk image?
I am trying to upgrade Kali Linux from 2017.2 to 2018.2 using an iso mounted in the Kali Virtual Machine.
So, what I did was I edited my sources.list file to:
deb file:///media/cdrom0 kali-rolling main contrib non-free
and commented other lines…
        
        DeshBhakt
        
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        apt-get update issue in Kali
I'm running Kali Linux in WSL2. It's a new installation (using wsl --install) but when I try to apt-get update I get the following error:
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous 
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        TheDoctor025
        
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        How to solve this Dependencies apt --fix-broken install
When I use the command
apt --fix-broken install 
I get the following errors:
Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... failed.
  The following packages have unmet…
        
        GM games
        
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        apt-get update not working: Signing/ Verification errors
When I run apt-get update I get 
Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb stable InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive-4.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease                
Hit:3 http://archive-4.kali.org/kali-security sana/updates InRelease
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        Zach
        
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        How do I disable the screensaver/lock in kali linux?
If I am doing nothing for about 10 minutes or so, then my OS is locked and I have to login again which is very annoying. How can I disable this security feature?
        
        Black
        
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        Can't login in Kali Linux
I installed Kali Linux a month ago. It was good until today. 
When I submit username and password the box disappears and reappears again asking about username and password. It shows no error. I just can't login.
I also tried to make new account and…
        
        Frank
        
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        Virtual Box error after creating new VM
I have followed several tutorials thinking I was doing something wrong while installing virtual machines using VirtualBox.
It is important to say that I'm running Virtual Box on Windows 8.1
The problem is that after creating a virtual machine, I get…
        
        Jesus Adolfo
        
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        BOOTREC /FIXBOOT => Element not found
So the other day, there is a post about this here but there have been some developments, I installed Linux Kali to dual boot and messed up the booting of my PC.
After messing around with the boot files I finally got it to boot the Windows 10…
        
        Dan
        
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        Getting a "your password no longer matches your keyring" error when I try to access my VPN on Kali Linux
I had to reset my root password and now I'm having this issue when I try to access my VPN on Kali Linux:
Your password no longer matches your keyring.
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?
All the solutions I can find are for Ubuntu and…
        LostintheBardo
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        Security Violation on boot off Usb
I have a bootable USB drive with Kali Linux on it
When I try to boot off it, my BIOS will alert me that it cannot boot due to a *SECURITY VIOLATION*
Then it boots to my current OS. (Ubuntu)
How do I stop this from happening and boot to Kali?
Thanks…
        
        Enzo Gladiadis
        
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        Bluetooth not Working on Kali Linux
Well I had the problem that bluetooth was always off. I go to configuration->Bluetooth and everytime I tried to put it off just returns to off a while after.
I tried with this command:
aptitude install bluetooth
and then ran
/etc/init.d/bluetooth…
        
    
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        How to set system time on Kali linux?
I am trying to set the time, using e.g.
date -s "11/20/2003 12:00:00"
however, after a few moments, the system time resets to the current time. What am I doing wrong?
NTP should not get a different time, as this is a NTP server that has no…
        
        Phil
        
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        Change number of CPUs in VirtualBox is disabled
I'm using virtualbox with Kali and it's working fine, however I currently only have it using 1 cpu and I'd like to add more. 
However when I go to Settings → System → Processor the fields are greyed out and I can't change number of processors (this…
        
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        Kali linux failed after upgrade
My Kali stopped working after upgrade.
I run it in recovery mode, and it seems that basic communication (http) packages have some problem. 
When I try wget or curl I get:
relocation error /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnutls.so.30: symbol…
        
        Gari BN
        
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        How to change the colour of KATE text editor's UI
I have recently downloaded KATE text editor for my kali linux. I love the editor ,but the light UI is a real eyesore.
Does anybody know how to make the UI dark like the editor's theme?