APT Problems

[SteVe Cook]

Bill Hartwell wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 15:09, Thilo Six wrote:
>> Bill Hartwell wrote the following on 23.08.2006 20:02:
>>> I'm not sure what's going on here, since I have installed all the
>>> keys for the repositories and have the latest version of GPG
>>> installed and running.
>>>
>>> When I try to install ANY package, I get to the signature
>>> verification stage, and it fails. It doesn't matter if it's from
>>> the CD, from the main repository, or even a package I've saved on
>>> my HD and am trying to install directly. I can not install
>>> anything without
>>> using 'dpkg -i --force-bad-verify <package name>'
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for how to fix this?
>> hi
>>
>> does this change s.th.?
>> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 437D05B5
>> gpg --export --armor 437D05B5 | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> Nope. No change. GPG processes the key and I get an "OK" from apt-key, 
> but it doesn't change the response when I try to install stuff.
> 
> 
I'm sure I read something somewhere about this, that suggested the 
following (I think!)

Backup sources.list
Delete everything in sources.list and save it so you have an empty file.
Run aptitude update
Restore sources.list from the backup
Run aptitude update again

I may be wrong, but I can't find the article at the moment. Besides it 
can't make things any worse :-)



Good luck

SteVe