Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> wrote:

> wget -qO- https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo
> apt-key add -

No, please do NOT use "apt-key add" but instead download the key and put
it as a file with the suffix ".gpg" into the directory
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

Hi -

Just curious why you recommend this instead of "apt-key add"?

Thanks.....Nick

 

Grüße,
Sven.