Comments on: Fixing gpg errors with apt-get for dummies like me

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:41:56 +0000

Thank you. I will add it inline for the others…

By: S

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:39:08 +0000

hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net did not respond to me,luckily I found this one:

gpg –keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu –recv-key 51716619E084DAB9
gpg -a –export 51716619E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -

By: Eduardo Linhalis

Eduardo Linhalis — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:47:32 +0000

Really great! Fixed in one step!
Thanks a lot,
Eduardo

By: phonemic_chip

phonemic_chip — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:31:12 +0000

awesome. done it!

By: Yury

Yury — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:18:50 +0000

JFYI
To cope with VirtualBox just do the following:
1. Download by any means oracle_vbox.asc from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/
2. Put it to your keys repository like there:
cat – |sudo apt-key add -
(I consider a simple copy-paste from the site here, YMMV)

By: StephenW

StephenW — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:00:05 +0000

Thank you Mattias @ (November 1st, 2009 at 19:53)

Sudo apt-key ! Doh!

stephen@stephen-desktop:~$ gpg –armor –export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | apt-key add -
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-’: general error
gpg: import from `-’ failed: general error

stephen@stephen-desktop:~$ gpg –armor –export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | sudo apt-key add -
OK
stephen@stephen-desktop:~$

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Fixing apt-get GPG errors » — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:09:23 +0000

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By: Mattias

Mattias — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:53:23 +0000

Thanks a lot! I too ran into this problem updating Opera.

Concerning jhon’s error message; if you’re not in a root shell (which # – unlike $ – usually indicate) you might want to try something like this:

$ gpg –armor –export 07DC563D1F41B907 | sudo apt-key add -

Best wishes, Mattias

By: Fixing apt-get GPG errors

Fixing apt-get GPG errors — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:53:29 +0000

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By: Cristiano Miranda

Cristiano Miranda — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:04:22 +0000

Hello Folks!

In first, I’m a Brazilian guy and I’m still studying this idiom, so, sorry for my mistakes! =D

So, I found an information that can be very important related with that problem described here.

Look that here: http://cultoffree.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/w-gpg-errorno_pubkey-60d11217247d1cff-wtf/

I followed that tutorial and resolved my problem:

$$$:/home/$$$$/.opera# gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv 07DC563D1F41B907
gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 1F41B907: “Christian Marillat ” not changed
gpg: Número total processado: 1
gpg: não modificados: 1
$$$:/home/$$$$/.opera# gpg –export –armor 07DC563D1F41B907 | apt-key add -
OK
$$$:/home/$$$$.opera# apt-get update
Baixados 387B em 2s (137B/s)
…
Lendo listas de pacotes… Pronto

[]‘s
@alcarrolikis

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:47:18 +0000

Thanks a lot. Worked very well and helped me a lot!

greetz Nick

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By: Dmity

Dmity — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:57:26 +0000

THanks a lot for info) This warning constantly bothered me till your article)

By: Frank Spychalski

Frank Spychalski — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:37:20 +0000

Sorry, this is a gpg error I haven’t seen. You should ask on a gpg mailing list…

By: jhon

jhon — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:38:31 +0000

I had same problem, but the process above, not work.
I obtain this message:
jhon:/etc/apt# gpg –armor –export 07DC563D1F41B907 | apt-key add -
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=23)
gpg: keydb_get_keyblock failed: eof
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=23)
gpg: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg: copy to `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.tmp’ failed: invalid packet
gpg: error writing keyring `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg’: invalid packet
gpg: error reading `-’: invalid packet
gpg: import from `-’ failed: invalid packet
jhon:/etc/apt#

Please, helpme.

jhon

By: wilsonjallan@gmail.com

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:52:11 +0000

Great info. Very clean and easy to read. This is the one thing which I have never been able to memorize.. the requesting a gpg key from a keyserver. Thanks guys!