Upgrading from Kali Linux 2.0(sana) to Kali Linux rolling edition

I've been putting a lot of things off as of late and upgrading my kali linux has been one of them, but no more :). The is a quick step by step guide on how to upgrading to Kali Linux rolling edition.


Step1. Before doing anything just do a quick apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to apply any outstanding updates to the kali linux 2.0 image.

Step2. Once the updates have been applied. The go ahead and open the /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor (mine being vim) and add the following information to the file.

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

Step3.  After adding the above source to the /etc/apt/sources.list file run the following commands and just walk a way and grab some coffee and a pop tart (yum).

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

Step4. After completing the upgrade and rebooting, when booting into the Kali linux rolling edition you may have to reinstall open-vm-tools-desktop in order to make sure your full screen option works properly with the rolling edition.

Note: After  the upgrade i've noticed a couple of changes

1. the network card changed from eth0 to eno16777736 this is kinda similar to the network card settings in an default centos 7 installation.

2. After upgrading to kali linux rolling my display in full screen mode was still not right. After hours of searching and testing i found the solution that worked for me by running the following commands:

# uninstall vmware tools  (note: I transitioned from Kali 2.0):
vmware-uninstall-tools.pl 

# uninstall open-vm-tools
apt-get remove open-vm-tools-desktop
apt-get autoremove
reboot

# install open-vm-tools
apt-get install  open-vm-tools-desktop
reboot