I think I finally got things the way I wanted in Mandrake 10.1. After I ran easy_urpmi, I tried to run urpmi --auto-select (is that even necessary?) and got this:

[root@ilegheri gian]# urpmi --auto-select
To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (3 MB):
perl-URPM-1.03-2.1.101mdk.i586
urpmi-4.5-29.1.101mdk.noarch
Is this OK? (Y/n) y

The following packages have bad signatures:
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-URPM-1.03-2.1.101mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature (sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#22458a98 NOT OK)
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/urpmi-4.5-29.1.101mdk.noarch.rpm: Invalid signature (sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#22458a98 NOT OK)
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) n

Does that mean there is no way to update those signatures? If I don't I'm sure that will come back and bite me? Or am I missing something only a Newbie would miss?


Thank you all


NEW2MDK

All it means is that you can't verify the package is authentic becuase you don't have the authors pgp signatures in your database. So you would have to get GPG#22458a98 and GPG#22458a98 from a key server to authenticate the packages. Just search fro gpg key server on google. It's actually not that big a deal, you could just ignore it and it won't hurt you at all. I prefer to do md5sum on my files as authenication is easier, but Mandrake like the pgp mehtod.

By the way ounce you have the key you can do a "pgp -import whatever" to put it in your database. More info can be found by "man gpg". Right now you have no keys "pgp --list-keys" will return nothing becuase you have none. There is also ways to automate the whole thing by editing some file and giving it the address of a keyserver and crap and build a keyring and on and on, but I rarely use gpg.

Sometimes that happens when urpmi can't find packages on a mirror, just update your urpmi sources if every other solution doesn't work.

Through here > http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/index.html it was unable to locate the two keys I need.

And reddazz, I'm not sure what you mean exactly? If you mean I run 'easy_urpmi' again I did. It told me everything already existed.

Thank you

I believe he meant that you should run

"urpmi.update -all"

to update the hdlists for your repository mirrors.

That allowed me to only update 'plf-free'. For some reason I'm still unable to do a urpmi --auto-select because the dependencies have bad signatures:

[root@ilegheri gian]# urpmi --auto-select
To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (3 MB):
perl-URPM-1.03-2.1.101mdk.i586
urpmi-4.5-29.1.101mdk.noarch
Is this OK? (Y/n) y

The following packages have bad signatures:
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-URPM-1.03-2.1.101mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature (sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#22458a98 NOT OK)
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/urpmi-4.5-29.1.101mdk.noarch.rpm: Invalid signature (sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#22458a98 NOT OK)
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) n
[root@ilegheri gian]#


thank you