Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I followed the instructions on the backports instruction page:
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> If you are using *etch* and you want apt to verify the downloaded 
> backports you can import backports.org archive’s key into apt:
>
> gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 16BA136C
> gpg --export | apt-key add -
>
> or
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> wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add -
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> but after executing the second option (or the second line of the first 
> option) I get the following messages:
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> gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
> gpg: error reading `-': general error
> gpg: import from `-' failed: general error
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> This occurs whether I run this as a normal user, or with sudo.  What 
> am I doing wrong?
If I had run as root, it probably would have worked, but I used sudo.  
This only runs the first command as root (I believe), so the command 
'apt-key add - ' was run as a normal user and did not like that.  Using 
sudo on that command, as well, ran without errors.

Alpine is now installed and aptitude gives me no errors.

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com