How to add public keys?
 

Hello,

When update with aptitude I get:

W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org etch-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EA8E8B2116BA136C
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

How would I get the public key for backports.org and add it to my system?

Thx,

pb

Instructions are here http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/do...d=instructions

Those two commands work very well, you just have to replace the eight @ symbols with the last eight digits of the key apt said you're missing. In your case they would look like this:

Thanks for the help. I'll try this in the morning. ;-)

-pb

BTW- where is the file that these keys are added to?

Thanks Again,

pb

Not sure, probably /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

A nice tool to manage keys is gui-apt-key. # aptitude install gui-apt-key. Then just copy/paste the key in and let it do the work.

Bump...

I recently encountered this issue when updating Debian and the two-step command sequence shown above worked fine, although the key-server mentioned was not active. (I simply omitted the "--keyserver" bit.) Is there a cleaner, e.g. one-step command to update keys that are missing?