Re: Cannnot authenticate debian archive packages

[Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>]

Hi all,

  I have similar problem.
  The only thing is that instead of installing from DVD, i put the DVD
  images on to a server which loop-back mounts the DVD. I have added 
  the local server address to the sources.list. 
  But on the Etch DVD there is no Release.gpg file.
  Now, how can i avoid the authetication warning without using 
  APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated 1


 OR
  can i download the GPG keys from the etch website and then have it
  installed in my machine so that i can avoid the authentication 
  warning  ? If so can someone point me to the website and the method
  to import the keys

thanks


On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 03:44 +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> 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
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> > Regards,
> > 
> > -Roberto
> > 
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Bhasker C V
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