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Re: Cannnot authenticate debian archive packages



On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 21:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:00:51AM +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> > This is the output:
> > 
> >   # apt-get install gui-apt-key
> >   Reading package lists... Done
> >   Building dependency tree... Done
> >   The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >     gui-apt-key
> >   0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> >   Need to get 30.5kB of archives.
> >   After unpacking 512kB of additional disk space will be used.
> >   WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> >     gui-apt-key
> >   Install these packages without verification [y/N]?y
> >   Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/main gui-apt-key 0.3-1 [30.5kB]
> >   Fetched 30.5kB in 0s (39.2kB/s)
> >   Selecting previously deselected package gui-apt-key.
> >   (Reading database ... 127897 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> >   Unpacking gui-apt-key (from .../gui-apt-key_0.3-1_all.deb) ...
> >   Setting up gui-apt-key (0.3-1) ...
> > 
> Hmm.  Have you tried doing an 'apt-get update' and trying to install the
> package?

# apt-get update
  Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]
  Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release
  ...
  Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/non-free Sources
  Fetched 23.4kB in 1s (15.1kB/s)
  Reading package lists... Done

  # apt-get install gui-apt-key
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  gui-apt-key is already the newest version.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


  # dpkg --purge gui-apt-key
  (Reading database ... 127942 files and directories currently
installed.)
  Removing gui-apt-key ...
  Purging configuration files for gui-apt-key ...

  # apt-get install gui-apt-key
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    gui-apt-key
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B/30.5kB of archives.
  After unpacking 512kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Selecting previously deselected package gui-apt-key.
  (Reading database ... 127897 files and directories currently
installed.)
  Unpacking gui-apt-key (from .../gui-apt-key_0.3-1_all.deb) ...
  Setting up gui-apt-key (0.3-1) ...

No warning this time. :)

It seems apt-get update solved the problem. No explanation, though.

I usually do an update from synaptic, but I may have done diffently this
time.

Regards
Enrique










> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 



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