[Problem] Kali Linux – Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae & Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae’

Posted by Firewall Engineer on November 24, 2013
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I’ve just installed a Kali Linux in my VirtualBox. The next step is to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Kali Linux in order to have proper mouse, screen integration and folder sharing with my host system.
Unfortunately, once I’ve run the following command, I was getting the following error message.
Command

apt-get update && apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Error

E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae’

Example

root@kali:~# apt-get update && apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates InRelease
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae’
root@kali:~#

Please let me know if you have any solutions for this.

REFERENCE:
http://docs.kali.org/general-use/kali-linux-virtual-box-guest
https://forums.kali.org/archive/index.php/t-74.html

5 comments on “[Problem] Kali Linux – Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae & Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae’”

      • I’ve just installed a Kali Linux in my VirtualBox. The next step is to install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Kali Linux in order to have proper mouse, screen integration and folder sharing with my host system.

        this problem

        E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae
        E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae

  2. sources.list

    # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 _Kali_ - Official Snapshot i386 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20130905-08:50]/ kali contrib main non-free 

## Security updates
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
    apt-get update
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release.gpg     
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://http.kali.org kali Release
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates Release
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/main i386 Packages
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://http.kali.org kali/non-free i386 Packages
Hit http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Translation-lv
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-lv
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-lv
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-lv
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-lv_LV
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Translation-lv
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-lv
Ign http://http.kali.org kali/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://security.kali.org kali/updates/non-free Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done

    apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

    Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.7-trunk-686-pae'
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