GPG Keys

[Tony Arnold]

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 12:27 -0600, Jacob Weeks wrote:
> i had to do this to use some repos.. if you want apt-get to actually
> beable to use the key.. you need them in roots keychain.. therefore..
> the sudo
> 
> if you don't sudo you'd be putting them in your keychain.. and then
> the signature check on the repos would fail and you can't get some
> updates/software.
> 
> I recall an issue, and resulted to su - ; signing in as root .. then
> get the keys..
> 
> which tony might want to try.

I wasn't the OP, it was Leonard!

Must admit I missed the sudo then reading this. One option might be to
change the ownership of the .gnupg directory and it's contents to root
and then retrying the gpg command. You would have to change it back
agsin afterwards, of course.

Regards,
Tony.