On the subject of debian...

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi Charles

Thanks, for that.  I guess I'm so baffled by this public key business I didn't quite know what I should search for to fix it.  Of course, I see people like yourself use these keys, but I'm got no idea what their function might be?

I'll take some time out and read about them soon, promise.

Gena

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:52:56PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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> Gena,
> 
> There are three steps to follow, maybe the first is already done. If you 
> are not a gnupg user, this is the first step, as root:
> 
> apt-get install gnupg
> 
> 
> Then you must use your cut and paste speakup feature to examine that 
> error, and capture the fingerprint of the encryption key that is shown 
> to you. Plug it into the second step in place of the one that is shown. 
> Again as root, type this:
> 
> gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 60B6B958
> 
> 
> Finally, there is a third step. Again, as root, type this:
> 
> gpg --armor --export  | apt-key add -
> 
> 
> That should do it. What is happening is that the archives have begun to 
> offer public key signing as an authentication method for the indices of 
> the repositories. There is just one key per repository that uses this 
> method. You can safely ignore the whole thing and just live with those 
> errors if you wish, they are only harmless warnings, but following the 
> above steps will retrieve the public key required by your system to 
> verify the signature that now accompanies some of those repository 
> indices when you do an apt-get update.
> 
> This whole subject is covered in painful detail on discussion lists and 
> in several wiki's, but the above steps should do it for you.
> 
> HTH
> Chuck
> 
> 
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