how to correct GPG error when updating via apt-get update

Konstantinos Koukopoulos kouk at noc.uoa.gr
Fri Oct 14 15:43:22 UTC 2005


On Friday 14 October 2005 14:02, Konstantinos Koukopoulos wrote:
> On Fri 14 Oct 2005 12:34, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:40:29PM +0300, Konstantinos Koukopoulos wrote:
> > > You have to first install the gnupg package (apt-get install gnupg) and
> > > then add the relevant keys to the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg keyring. This
> > > can be done with the command
> > >
> > > gpg --no-default-keyring --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv
> > > 359AAB34
> >
> > I'm not sure what went wrong, but:
> >
> > $ gpg --no-default-keyring --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --recv
> > 359AAB34 gpg: requesting key 359AAB34 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
> > gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
> > gpg: error reading `[stream]': general error
> > gpg: Total number processed: 0
> >
> > Any idea?
>
> Perhaps the keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg is not writable by your user id,
> Try su'ing to root before issuing the command.

On a different note, it seems that the gnupg package, version 1.4.0-3+kbsd, 
available from ftp.gnuab.org is missing it's dependency information. Is this 
something known or where should I report it?



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