aptitude Problems

Mike S michael_six at users.sourceforge.net
Mon May 23 05:08:36 UTC 2005


ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 15:27 -0700, Mike S wrote:
>  
>
>>Ok list, second post, but this is not architecture specific.  This is 
>>the 3rd time I have installed Ubuntu on this computer (5.04, Hoary I 
>>think is what it's called), And twice I have run  into the same 
>>problem.  After a while when I use apt or aptitude, I get "WARNING: The 
>>following packages cannot be authenticated!" on any package I install or 
>>upgrade, has anyone else come across this error, and/or know what's 
>>causing it, and/or know how to fix it?
>>Any help is much appreciated.
>>--Mike S
>>
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>>
>Yes.  If you try to install a package from a repository that is not
>digitally signed, you'll see that message.Are you using other (non
>Ubuntu) repositories?
>
>If you're using only Ubuntu's and have that problem, then it's most
>likely that “aptitude” (or whatever “apt” front-end you're using) failed
>to download the file “Release.gpg” from the server.  Just wait a few
>minutes and load the package list (i.e. update it) again.
>
>Ziyad.
>
>  
>
Thanks Ziyad.  I must now correct my previous statement, it does not do 
that with every package.  The only ones it did that with was when I 
tried aptitude or apt-get "upgrade"
The packages are:
bzip2 gzip libbz2-1.0 libgnutls11 libnspr4 libnss3 libpq3 mozilla-firefox
  mozilla-firefox-gnome-support mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb openoffice.org
  openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-gtk-gnome openoffice.org-l10n-en
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us tcpdump ttf-opensymbol
and I just tried it again, and it did not do that.   And I have not 
updated the package list since, so I don't know what was going on.  But 
to answer your question, before I used a sources.list file I got from 
the net, and couldn't tell you what all was in it, (unless I find it 
again ofcourse) but in the one I am currently using, it is the stock 
from the install with univerrse and multiverse added, for MOL packages.

--Mike S




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