Friday, July 31, 2026

Failed to update Kali Linux ( Release: 2026.3)

 I updated the Kali Linux 2026.3 with the following commands:

sudo apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove

I noticed the following last errors:

Error: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/dists/kali-rolling/main/Contents-amd64  404  Not Found [IP: 54.39.128.230 80]
Error: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The full error snapshot is shown below:










How to fix:
You can use the following commands to resolve the above-mentioned erros:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
Credit: GitHub