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Upgrading Kali from previous version to Version 2025.3

Problems

When running the apt update or apt upgrade in Kali to the latest version the following error asppears.

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To resolve this issue we can perform the following:

Get the current version of the OS with the following command.

cat /etc/os-release

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1. Download the keyring

wget https://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_CURRENT_VERSION_all.deb

https://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/k/kali-archive-keyring/kali-archive-keyring_2025.1_all.deb

2. Install the keyring

sudo dpkg -i kali-archive-keyring_CURRENT_VERSION_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i kali-archive-keyring_2025.1_all.deb

3. Perform the update 

sudo apt update -y

4. Perform the upgrade

sudo apt upgrade -y

5. Perform the FULL upgrade

sudo apt full-upgrade -y