How to upgrade Kali Linux 1.0.6 to 1.0.8 (Debian) using an offline ISO image?

Question

I want to upgrade Kali Linux to 1.0.6 to Kali 1.0.8. I realized that I can do this using the command:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

But I have a slow network and it would take forever to download the 1 GB (or so) of archives. Besides, I already have an offline 1.0.8 ISO.

I do not want to do the traditional fresh install because I have installed a lot of custom packages and configurations on my machine.

I want to upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.0.8 using the offline ISO I have (and keep the existing settings and everything).

Any thoughts on how I should do this?

Solution 1

Mount the ISO to /mnt directory

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt/

Modify the /etc/apt/sources.list Add:

deb file:///mnt kali main contrib non-free

Comment: Comment out all other repository locations from the file except the about one.

Update the system

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Un-comment We have now updated the system from the ISO, now we need to un-comment back the official repository locations and comment our newly added ISO repository.

Un-mount the ISO

sudo umount /mnt

Solution 2

The "uncomplicated way" (aka "without editing config files way") would be:

Copy all *.deb files from the iso/disc to /var/cache/apt/archives.

You can do this by mounting the iso-image to /mnt and then run

find /mnt -r -name *.deb -type f -exec cp {} /var/cache/apt/archives/ \;

Run

aptitude update; aptitude autoclean;

to delete all old debs from the cache directory and then upgrade like you would always do. apt/aptitude will now only download files you don't have in your cache.

Comments

[Admin]

what do you mean by comment.........? Comment out all other repository locations from the file except the about one. Update the system

[Kunal Gupta]

Add # in front of all the other lines in the file except that the one you just added.

[VidathD]

Source bhutanict.blogspot.com/2014/06/… ?