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Old 06-15-2009, 11:14 AM   #16
DavidMcCann
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I've modified my sources.list file manually and when I ran "aptitude update" I was told

W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

So I ran "apt-get update" and got exactly the same reply!

All this was actually working last week, and I installed three programs. What's happened since then? More importantly, how do I get out of this mess?

[RANT] I can remember installing Fedora Core 1 — the first time I'd installed an OS. I had everything working in a couple of days. Now, with several years extra experience, I've been trying to get Debian sorted for a couple of weeks! And I thought its reputation as an unfriendly distro for professionals or hobbyists must be exaggerated… [/RANT]
 
Old 06-15-2009, 11:31 AM   #17
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and on the debian-multimedia site it tells you you need to install the key for the repository..

http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
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The first package to install is debian-multimedia-keyring.
First download the debian-multimedia-keyring package.
Then under root or with sudo do the following :
"dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb" or "sudo dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb"
I install it directly from the repository rather than downloading it manually.

aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring

more a lack of reading documentation than lack of Linux experience..

Debian is not Fedora, is not slackware, is not Suse. expecting all distros to work the same way is the wrong approach


Docs
http://wiki.debian.org/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...e/ch02.en.html
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/.../rn01re01.html

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