use apt-get update E: Failed to fetch http://...... File has unexpected size

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E: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.kali.com/kali/dists/kali-rolling/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  File has unexpected size (15320738 != 15317336). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 111.11.111.111 80]
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:15317336 [weak]
    - SHA256:c4762e83455984f8d3fb54f6f42836808b8c891ba117661b61240bc5774d2e02
    - SHA1:fdebd56e7541e6f88d7910988ef694d3c409e21d [weak]
    - MD5Sum:51400b889af8677132f31d56f266bf22 [weak]
   Release file created at: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 06:55:45 +0000
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

this is the error page.How to deal with this problem？

Hi Suden, I've encountered this same error, have you resolved it ? — monk, Oct 14 '17 at 12:32
I had the same problem on Ubuntu and changing the repository mentioned in the error message fixed the issue, for me there was another mirror. — Zignd, Apr 08 '18 at 01:58

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '18 at 05:50

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I had the same problem. Here is my solution and it works on Kali inside VirtualBox.

Please update your /etc/apt/sources.list with

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

Example

root@kali:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb https://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
# deb-src https://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
root@kali:~#

Let's update it ...

root@kali:~# apt update
Hit:1 https://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root@kali:~#

Hope this helps.

answered Jun 09 '18 at 05:50

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This did the trick for me. The only change I made was upgrading all instances of `http://http.kali.org/` to `https://http.kali.org/` – Adam Katz Dec 16 '18 at 20:15
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Great comment, saved my day :) – Kulgar Mar 06 '19 at 17:08
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This also worked for me – Machinexa Sep 18 '21 at 19:04
For me, In the terminal as root, I typed this command `echo "deb http://kali.download/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list` then `apt-get update` – Yusuf Amr Jun 25 '22 at 06:29

monk · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-14T13:13:03.180

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I've resolved it. It seems that you added more than one source entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. I guess more than one entry will make apt command confused, likely get header from one source then get packages from another, and the package size may not equal to the one defined in header. Edit the file and left only one source entry worked for me. Hope this helpful

edited Oct 14 '17 at 13:13

answered Oct 14 '17 at 12:59

monk

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What command should we change? – Reza Bojnordi Jun 21 '20 at 06:26
You solved the theory, but did not provide the command to do this. – dylanh724 Jun 25 '21 at 12:26

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 09:07

2

Check if the firewall is blocking it. For me it was the firewall detecting the packets as malicious.

answered Nov 08 '17 at 09:07

MistSpark

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Thanks for this, my Sophos UTM's default settings for web filtering were blocking this traffic as potentially malicious. – Robbie Crash Dec 29 '17 at 23:41

Mohamed Bouguerra · Answer 4 · 2017-11-26T10:13:44.760

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First open the file /etc/apt/sources.list, then delete all lines and add those lines

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

save and execute again

sudo apt-get update

edited Nov 26 '17 at 10:13

answered Nov 25 '17 at 12:38

Mohamed Bouguerra

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This leads to an error after `sudo apt-get update`: `root@kali:~# apt-get update Err:1 http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 144.217.77.182 80] Reading package lists... Done E: Failed to fetch http://repo.kali.org/kali/dists/kali-rolling/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 144.217.77.182 80] E: The repository 'http://repo.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.` – HorstKevin Apr 06 '18 at 09:57

use apt-get update E: Failed to fetch http://...... File has unexpected size

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