When one adds a new repositry in sources.list file then there is a high possibility that we face the following error when `apt-get update` command is executed
————————- Error —————–
W: GPG error: http://edevelop.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7E5D69A103CA4243————————————————-
W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org sarge Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY D5642BC86823D007
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
B5D0C804ADB11277
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
To resolve this issue i have created a script which when provided the KeyID will download the key and add it to your key ring.
---------------------------------- Script ------------------------
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys $1
gpg --armor --export $1 | apt-key add -
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The second line of your little script needs a sudo for apt-key to work and thus should read:
gpg –armor –export $1 | sudo apt-key add -
Also, if a line was added before the first line as follows
#/bin/sh
then things would work better. I named the script file “key-import”. Now the script will be recognised by Linux as a script. Of course you would need to do “chmod +r key-import” to make it executable.
Now you may call the script by issuing the command “./key-import D018A4CE” (of course replacing the actual key with the last 8 characters of the key that apt-get could not find.
Lastly you may move the script to a location that is in your path environment variable.
me@host:~$ env | grep PATH
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
So I moved my script as follows:
me@host:~$ sudo mv key-import /usr/local/bin/
Now I can issue the command “key-import” from anywhere on my machine.
Comment by Lifeboy — November 16, 2009 @ 7:15 am |