Jumped too early on it. It was a corrupted apt keyring leftover of my upgrade from Ubuntu to Debian. Fixing it solved everything. Thanks, Ritesh On Tuesday 24 April 2012 03:49 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to fix a bug in apt-offline. > > I try running the following command but gpg complains me about the > public key's unavailability. Is there a separate keyring for apt package > database trust that I need to use? > > rrs@champaran:/tmp/apt-offline-downloads-31824$ sudo gpgv > --ignore-time-conflict --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --homedir > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ /tmp/InRelease.txt > gpgv: Signature made Tuesday 24 April 2012 01:48:25 PM IST using RSA key > ID 473041FA > gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found > > > I tried the same with the old approach of Release files but I get the > same error. > > sudo gpgv --ignore-time-conflict --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg > --homedir /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ > ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_Release.gpg > ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_Release > gpgv: Signature made Tuesday 24 April 2012 01:48:00 PM IST using RSA key > ID 473041FA > gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found > > > Please help on how I should proceed. I have the debian-archive-keyring > package installed. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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