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Re: gpg key error in unstable



Hello

L.V.Gandhi (<lvgandhi@gmail.com>) wrote:

> I have dell inspiron 600m. today I have loaded base sarge and upgraded
> to unstable. I wanted to avoid the error
> Install these packages without verification.
> Hence as per info in debian-admin site I did as follows.
> 
> apt-get install gnupg
> 
> Once that's done you can either download the public key by running:
> 
> root@mystery:~# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 4F368D5D
> secring.gpg  is shown as 0 byte file
> 
> root@mystery:~# cat ziyi_key_2006.asc | gpg --import
> 
> I tried this also. Still I get error as mentioned above.
> What should I do?

You need to run apt-key, e.g.

apt-key add ziyi_key_2006.asc

Of course this only works /after/ you installed apt from
testing/ustable. You can also install the debian-archive-keyring
package and run `apt-key update`.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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