aptitude Problems

Tim Webster tdwebste at gmail.com
Tue May 24 13:48:26 UTC 2005


The link you sent me outlines very briefly a set of instructions for
Hoary users to merge Christian Marillat's archive key for
debian-marillat.

This installs Christian Marillat  keys, but doesn't install breezy keys.

ubuntu keyserver please,
ubuntu key I need to request

I can install my key once I know that.




On 5/24/05, Trace Green <jamesxuruo at 163.com> wrote:
> Tim Webster wrote:
> 
> >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
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>ubuntu-users mailing list
> >>ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> Tim Webster,
> Hello, when you do apt-get update, I think you may face some problems 
> about authentication error.
> At first, do you modify your source list? If you don't modify it but 
> still have that problem, i don't know why.
> If you have modify it, you may have a look at this link:
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AptAuthenticationInstructionsForHoary
> when you apt-get update, please check the error message, you may find 
> some characters like "2wd23dq34sfgwer3", look at the link i mentioned 
> and you will know how to deal with it.
> 
>




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