I've recently installed Kali Linux on a virtual machine and decided to run apt update. How ever every time I try I get this scary looking error.
Get:1 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling InRelease [30.5 kB]
Get:2 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages [16.5 MB]
Err:2 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/main amd64 Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
Hashes of expected file:
- Filesize:16520977 [weak]
- SHA256:f01529c6d3e3259775f052b84a336ad9aa0a02156751b1edb28cb7cc635a46d6
- SHA1:8cb85fa99d2cf0bccacb68c65dba8b043070e4cf [weak]
- MD5Sum:92b1c6a2e788e13acc678a3173a4c653 [weak]
Hashes of received file:
- SHA256:f07b7c964b1e75b1e60fb1c5bb9b24eddcc39055ef81cf0578311a4ce9b2d786
- SHA1:77c969f7b2e45cfb9c1b36ccd3971f28ca202312 [weak]
- MD5Sum:d7f99187e8a2eb6c482a005ef7c12230 [weak]
- Filesize:16520977 [weak]
Last modification reported: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:02:10 +0000
Release file created at: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:03:05 +0000
Get:3 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/non-free amd64 Packages [197 kB]
Get:4 https://kali.download/kali kali-rolling/contrib amd64 Packages [102 kB]
Fetched 16.6 MB in 2s (8,704 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://kali.download/kali/dists/kali-rolling/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Hash Sum mismatch
Hashes of expected file:
- Filesize:16520977 [weak]
- SHA256:f01529c6d3e3259775f052b84a336ad9aa0a02156751b1edb28cb7cc635a46d6
- SHA1:8cb85fa99d2cf0bccacb68c65dba8b043070e4cf [weak]
- MD5Sum:92b1c6a2e788e13acc678a3173a4c653 [weak]
Hashes of received file:
- SHA256:f07b7c964b1e75b1e60fb1c5bb9b24eddcc39055ef81cf0578311a4ce9b2d786
- SHA1:77c969f7b2e45cfb9c1b36ccd3971f28ca202312 [weak]
- MD5Sum:d7f99187e8a2eb6c482a005ef7c12230 [weak]
- Filesize:16520977 [weak]
Last modification reported: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:02:10 +0000
Release file created at: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:03:05 +0000
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
After doing a bit of googling I found two other people who had the same issue as me.
https://tinyurl.com/y6eempyu
https://tinyurl.com/y4zfpvxj
Both of which had the same solution that looked promising.
Unfortunately, even after editing /etc/apt/sources.list to use other mirrors from http://mirror.anquan.cl/kali I still get the same error.
Edit (clarification): The solutions I've found online, the links above, all say to change the mirror used in /etc/apt/sources.list which doesn't work for me.
