problems with upgrade of kde

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Tue May 19 15:58:33 BST 2009


On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:06:33 -0400 Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com> wrote:
>following hte upgrade instructions for Kubuntu Jaunty running AMD 64 
getting
>the following errors:
>
>WARNING: The following packages cannot be
>authenticated!
...

>Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
>y

Please don't do this.  Install the key for the PPA.  See the PPA page in 
Launchpad for details.  Installing packages that aren't cryptographically 
signed is a poor security practice.


> trying to overwrite ...

These are packaging issues that we need to work out.  There is a lot of 
file shuffling in 4.3 between packages and so it will take some incremental 
updates to sort out.

>Any ideas?
>
It should be safe to force overwrite these in the meantime.

Scott K



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