[ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

[John Stevenson]

On 27 May 2010 12:15, Cornelius Mostert <corneliusmostert at googlemail.com>wrote:

> I am getting this:
>
> Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
> --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg
> --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com--recv-keys 9BDB3D89CE49EC21
> gpg: requesting key CE49EC21 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
> gpgkeys: key 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 not found on keyserver
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0
>
> I have to say that we are behind a nasty firewall and proxy so I might have
> to provide a user name and password, is it possible to do that inline of the
> command or how would I do that?
>

Depending on which tool you use to install packages, you can define a proxy
server and port.  The proxy may need your login and password details too...