Re: apt-get and authentication
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:09:19PM +0100, marc wrote:
> Ephemeral root said...
> > Quoting Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>:
> >
> > > Why has apt-get started giving me this message:
> > >
> > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> >
> > That's part of apt 0.6's new security feature. You must add to your
> > apt set-up the gpg public key of the archives where you downloaded
> > the packages. I think this has already been done for you if you
> > download only official Debian packages.
>
> I think that this change has been very badly managed. I saw these
> messages and had no idea what had changed and what was required of me
> to "correct" the "problem".
>
> Worse, there is no reference to apt-key in the man pages of aptitude
> or apt-get, which is where, I suspect, most folk would first look for
> clues.
>
> Neither was there an announcement in debian.user.news
>
> > For adding the keys of unofficial sites, read the man page,
>
> Thanks for advertising apt-key's existence :-o It might also help folk
> to know about man apt-secure.
>
> That said, I couldn't work out what steps I am supposed to take from
> those man pages.
>
> > I hope my explanation doesn't read like a man page.
>
> Not all all. It was clear, precise and understandable on first
> reading, without references to a minimum of a dozen documents of
> required reading, usually recursively, before being remotely
> comprehensible. But I suspect that you were writing for an audience of
> human beings :-)
>
> Now, does anyone know what actions we are supposed to take?
This seems to have worked for me:
apt-get install debian-keyring
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