Re: Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:

List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian release certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to reinstate security for software upgrades or installations.

Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pretty normal set of desktop applications. Synaptic marked a few items as 'upgradeable', maybe a dozen, including openssh and iceweasel. Asked synaptic to apply the upgrades, and it replies with a text box warning that some upgrades cannot be authenticated. Among those are openssh client and server, and iceweasel; the list of unauthenticatable items pretty much matches the list of items that synaptic has marked as upgradeable.

The last changes I did were to install (a few minutes before) a 386 architecture, through apt and synaptic, without encountering any authentication issues. In the meantime I've declined any more changes. How best should I get back to a state where synaptic's updates are authenticated?

Grateful for any pointers,

regards, Ron

I understand that every now and then, less well managed mirrors (or perhaps less well-funded?) get cross-wise of their updates. If you can find in your logs which mirror gave you the update list, you might want to contact the mirror operator.

In the meantime, you might clear your cache and try again? I think there's a way to do this. I regularly cleared the yum cache on Fedora, but I think I've only used apt-get clean once in three years or so.

See man apt-get .

Also, synaptic has a menu option that will uncheck all the items checked for action. Not sure if that will help.

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