Re: [SLUG] apt errors return

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2007 - 21:45:24 EST


On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Ian C. Blenke wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
>>> So, it looks as if the problem may lie in /etc/apt/sources.list .
>>> Some of the lines, when enabled, complain about GPG. I have GPG; how
>>> do I set it up so apt is happy?
>> I have gpg as well, and I still get these messages. And FWIW, I've
>> never had more dependency problems with anything than I have had with
>> X. Particularly when Debian switch from X 6.XX to 7.XX, I had to dump
>> X and all dependent programs, and reinstall them all from scratch.
>> That's not pertinent to the X devel toolchain, but...
>
> If you mean messages like this:
>
> W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de testing Release: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
> available: NO_PUBKEY BB5E459A529B8BDA

Yup.

> The easiest way to "fix" these is to import the GPG keys from a gpg key
> server.
>
> Here's a script I use on my workstation builds to import keys:

[script]

Thanks. That'll allow a lot of sources to be enabled.

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