[Glastonbury] jackd

[maurice]

Still gnawing at this. The RPM site provides a variety of different RPMs for 
xsynth most of them suffixed i386. which I discover means it will run on an 
Intel CPU. Does any know if my AMD Athlon will be happy with an i386 RPM?

Maurice


On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 12:46, Ian Dickinson wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
> Most sites that publish RPM's and other packages also publish a secure
> key so that you can be sure that the package you're installing is the
> one they published and digitally signed, not one that someone else has
> tampered with. You need to tell RPM about this key, so that it can
> check the package before installing it. If you don't have a key for a
> signed package, you get the warning you saw.
>
> What you need to do:
> * go to the web site for the package publisher, and find their GPG
> key. It's typically named something like RPM-GPG-KEY.txt, and should
> be pretty visible.
>
> * download the key to your system by clicking 'save as' in firefox, or use
> wget
>
> * as root, import the key into GPG and RPM:
> rpm --import the.key.file.txt
> gpg --import the.key.file.txt
>
> Now you shouldn't get the warning, and you can be sure you are getting
> genuine packages.
>
> Btw, if you were able to begin the process of installing an RPM direct
> from firefox, it suggests you are running as superuser (root)
> normally. It's generally not a good idea to do this: better to run as
> a normal user, and only su to root as and when you need to do
> something that a non-privileged user can't do.
>
> hth,
> Ian
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:21:15 +0000, maurice <mail at mauricebutler.co.uk> wrote:
> > Rosegarden mentioned xsynth so I went to download it. The firefox brouser
> > was also eager not just to download but to install the rpm package all by
> > itself which I thought was wonderful. Well, of course I did:-)
> >
> > However, and there always seems to be a "however" with Linux,  I got some
> > warnings:
> >
> > Invalid Signature
> > Missing Key
> > . . . . NOT OK
> >
> > So I aborted the down load. From your collective knowledge and wisdom
> > could you advise me if I was right to abort and whether such warnings
> > were right to be heeded.
> >
> > Thanks once again
> > Maurice
>
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