Oracle Virtulbox key issues

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 21 21:35:35 UTC 2011


On 02/21/2011 06:08 AM, stan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:58:41PM +0200, Alin-Andrei wrote:
>> Try this:
>> 
>> wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O-
>> | sudo apt-key add -
>> sudo apt-get update
>> 
>> 
> I thought i had already tried that, but I ran it again this morning. The reu`sulst are
> the same:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org lucid Release: The following signatures were
> invalid: BADSIG 54422A4B98AB5139 Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)
> <info at virtualbox.org>
> 
> 

Try clearing the old key via synaptic & then try the wget again. If that
fails:

$ sudo apt-get clean
$ cd /var/lib/apt
$ sudo mv lists lists.old
$ sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get update

[Refs: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1480604]








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