Using apt-keys

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 2:57 AM david <david at daku.org> wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 1/8/2021, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:58 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I tried installing Virtualbox in 20.04, and recent exchanges on the
>>> mailing list advised me to use the Oracle repository rather than the
>>> one built into the Ubuntu distribution. Following one of the
>>> installation guides, I was asked to add a key to apt's keyring using
>>> apt-key. This led me to a deprecated warning, and further research
>>> led me to a multi-step incomprehensible replacement for the one (or
>>> two, depending how you count) replacement for sequences like
>>>
>>> sudo apt-key list
>>>
>>> check to see if the Oracle key is already there. and if not,
>>> issue:
>>>
>>> wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
>>> -O- | sudo apt-key add -
>>>
>>>
>>> I would hope that the replacement to 'apt-key' is easy. I can't
>>> believe that developers would replace a one-line commands with
>>> something complex. Please advise.
>>
>> Unless you have a need to automate this in an installation, just
>> go to their website manually and download the files, then install
>> them manually.
>
> Yes, I'm trying to automate the process. And apt-key becomes
> deprecated in future releases, so I'm sort of stuck. Got any
> ideas?

AFAIK, the idea's that you'll drop gpg files into
"/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d" or "/usr/share/keyrings".