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# Kali Linux gnupg installation error

{% hint style="danger" %}
E: Package 'gnupg' has no installation candidate
{% endhint %}

👉 **Manually download the Kali archive key and place it in the trusted directory.**

Here is the exact set of commands for your Kali 2024.1:

* Download the archive signing key

```bash
wget https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc
```

* Create the trusted.gpg.d directory (if not already present)

```bash
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
```

* Copy the key to the trusted.gpg.d directory

```bash
sudo cp archive-key.asc /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kali-archive-key.asc
```

* Now update the package lists again

```bash
sudo apt update
```