aptitude Problems

Tim Webster tdwebste at gmail.com
Mon May 23 14:08:20 UTC 2005


getting the same error with breezy

Example Below:
debsig: Origin Signature check failed. This deb might not be signed.

dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.12p-4ubuntu3_i386.deb


On 5/23/05, Mike S <michael_six at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >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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