Comments on: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY xxx http://www.annoying.dk/2007/10/11/the-following-signatures-couldnt-be-verified-because-the-public-key-is-not-available-no_pubkey-xxx/ yet another useless blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:16:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PhillC http://www.annoying.dk/2007/10/11/the-following-signatures-couldnt-be-verified-because-the-public-key-is-not-available-no_pubkey-xxx/comment-page-1/#comment-5937 PhillC Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:21:52 +0000 http://blog.annoying.dk/?p=5#comment-5937 Same thing happened to me. Debian Lenny. Fixed (I hope!) with: wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-archive-keyring/debian-archive-keyring_2008.04.16+nmu1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i debian-archive-keyring_2008.04.16+nmu1_all.deb wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14+b1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i apt_0.7.14+b1_i386.deb sudo apt-get install synaptic Same thing happened to me. Debian Lenny.

Fixed (I hope!) with:

wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-archive-keyring/debian-archive-keyring_2008.04.16+nmu1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i debian-archive-keyring_2008.04.16+nmu1_all.deb

wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14+b1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i apt_0.7.14+b1_i386.deb

sudo apt-get install synaptic

]]> By: admin http://www.annoying.dk/2007/10/11/the-following-signatures-couldnt-be-verified-because-the-public-key-is-not-available-no_pubkey-xxx/comment-page-1/#comment-5473 admin Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:47:34 +0000 http://blog.annoying.dk/?p=5#comment-5473 thats odd - what distribution did you use? thats odd – what distribution did you use?

]]> By: Dan http://www.annoying.dk/2007/10/11/the-following-signatures-couldnt-be-verified-because-the-public-key-is-not-available-no_pubkey-xxx/comment-page-1/#comment-4935 Dan Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:21:57 +0000 http://blog.annoying.dk/?p=5#comment-4935 DO NOT DO THIS COMMAND!!! #apt-get remove –purge debian-archive-keyring I didn't pay attention to the packages being removed, because I trusted this article. It removed the entirety of apt from my system, and I had to go manually download apt. It wasn't that difficult, but still frustrating. DO NOT DO THIS COMMAND!!!

#apt-get remove –purge debian-archive-keyring

I didn’t pay attention to the packages being removed, because I trusted this article. It removed the entirety of apt from my system, and I had to go manually download apt. It wasn’t that difficult, but still frustrating.

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