Help Understanding instructions.

Geminias · 10-06-2007, 06:21 PM

Hi i've got some instructions i'm trying to follow and i'm stuck on the line:
curl http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/key.asc | apt-key add -

All I am getting when i type that command is:

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curl http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/key.asc | apt-key add -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1328  100  1328    0     0   2563      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  145k
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-': general error
gpg: import from `-' failed: general error

The full instructions are here:

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Binaries

    * wxGTK Debian and Ubuntu packages for 2.8.6 are available. To use them please add

          deb http://apt.tt-solutions.com/debian/ etch main

      or

          deb http://apt.tt-solutions.com/ubuntu/ dapper main

      respectively to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (you can also use edgy or feisty instead of dapper depending on the Ubuntu release you use) and add the public key used for signing wxWidgets packages to the list of keys trusted by apt using the command

          curl http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/key.asc | apt-key add -

      and run apt-get update. You can then use apt-cache search --names-only wx\*2.8 command to see the available packages.

      Please notice that the packages are currently only available for x86 and amd64 architectures, please let us know if you can help with providing them for the other platforms.

almatic · 10-06-2007, 07:22 PM

Did you use 'sudo' to execute ? If yes, are you aware that sudo does not work for piped commands (only the first command will be executed as root, the second one as user). Either go root (by su) or type this:

curl http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

SlowCoder · 10-06-2007, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by almatic

Did you use 'sudo' to execute ? If yes, are you aware that sudo does not work for piped commands (only the first command will be executed as root, the second one as user). Either go root (by su) or type this:

curl http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Little sudo trick: Type 'sudo bash' to obtain a root prompt. Works well in Ubuntu.

jonwatson · 10-06-2007, 11:33 PM

'sudo su' also works to get a root prompt.