[Gloucs] Fun with debian keys

[Christian Trapp]

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Paul Broadhead wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Anyone else recently had problems with key errors while doing apt-get update and apt-get install on Debian testing?  I somehow managed to not notice apt being updated to a new version that defaults to authenticating the Debian packages.  I was getting various errors like:
> 
> $ apt-get update
> ...
> W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F1D53D8C4F368D5D
> W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F1D53D8C4F368D5D NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> 
> I googled for a couple of days finding and trying various so called solutions but could not fix the warnings.  I felt rather nervous as I had not at first, heard about the change. <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00064.html>
> 
> Eventually, using trial and error, I stumbled on the very simple solution.  It may not be the official solution but its simple and works.
> 
> # download key files from the debian website
> wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc
> wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc
> 
> # apt-key showed I had none installed
> apt-key list
> 
> # install the keys
> apt-key add ziyi_key_2005.asc
> apt-key add ziyi_key_2006.asc
> 
> # update now works without warnings
> 
> So Debian gurus, is this the proper way to fix this problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
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> 
Thanks Paul, had the same problem recently. I will try this out.

Christian

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