Problems with sources.list
 

When I run aptitude update, for the following entries in my sources.list I'm getting error messages as shown below:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian/ etch main

W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://download.videolan.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/download.videolan.org_pub_videolan_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Running apt-get update merely gives me the same error messages. These repos used to work. Can anyone help? :scratch:

This ought to fix it. Looks like you need the public key for www.debian-multimedia.org. The link below should fix that for you, if you follow the directions. You might want to update the apt source and key for videolan.org as well.

http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/24283/

Let us know if that worked. If it doesn't, try this

http://beranger.org/index.php?article=954

Good luck...

David

Originally posted by budword:
Yep! That seems to have done the trick for www.debian-multimedia.org. Many thanks for that.

I've googled around but can't find reference to a key for videolan.org.

The error message for videolan.org seems to suggest that the url is wrong but I've been to the videolan download page, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html, and the example given for Sarge looks identical to my entry, except that it states sarge instead of etch. No example is given for Etch (or Lenny) but there is one for Sid.

This might sound daft, but does this mean that there is actually no entry on that url for Etch? This would explain why apt can't find it. There seems to be an entry for Sid. Would it be problematic if I used that or indeed used the Sarge entry? WDYT?

I don't really follow debian all that closely, but I think etch just went stable. I think sid is always going to be unstable. I don't think there would be a huge problem if you used sid for just this one application, but it's not my system either. I wouldn't have a problem using it on my home desktop. Wouldn't risk it on a server though. :) Wouldn't need it there anyway, but sometimes people do strange things. And you are right, I couldn't find a key for the vlc apt source, I think they don't bother with one. I think that vlc's apt sources are just a little behind the times, because debian etch just went stable. You might want to just try the sid source, if it's just for vlc. That's what I would do.

Good luck....

David

That isn't going to stop you from using those repos. Just is a warning that you may not wish to trust them since the packages aren't verified. You can still use them like normal - just you will be asked if you want to install packages that cannot be verified.

Originally posted by DeanLinkous:
Although I knew that as far as the key was concerned, I didn't realise that was the case with "couldn't stat" etc. I've now managed to install a couple of packages from those repos that I wanted, so thanks. I'm still bemused, though, that I get the error message from videolan.org. All looks OK in my sources.list!

Don't quite understand the issue here. You can get the videolan player from any debian repo. I think even Sarge had it. Maybe even Woody.

# aptitude install vlc

@ rickh:

My misunderstanding. I took it that the error message would prevent me from downloading the package and, as I said, I never had it before the dist-upgrade from Sarge (I had used the repo for libdvdcss2 for Totem). Hence I queried it. Anyway, thanks for taking an interest.

Here's my sources.list for a working desktop :
 

Try this, it works fine for me :

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

#debian multimedia repository (http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/24283/)
deb ftp://linorg.usp.br/debian-marillat/ stable main
deb-src ftp://linorg.usp.br/debian-marillat/ stable main

# Official site for latest version of skype.
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

# Google picasa
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

### Opera Browser (http://deb.opera.com/) ###
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free

###Java 6 JRE/SDK (From Official Debian Repository) ###
deb http://ftp.bononia.it/debian etch main contrib non-free