On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 06:06:05PM +0200, Frank wrote: > Op 27-03-17 om 17:14 schreef Mark Fletcher: > >Well, switching from http.debian.net to deb.debian.org seems to have > >fixed that one. The error relating to that has gone away. > > Don't be surprised if it comes back. I think it may just have selected a > different mirror now, but you can't be certain it will always pick that one.
Right. So far it hasn't but I get what you are saying. I don't believe, however, that I ran for weeks getting redirected to the same mirror and getting the same error and then at the moment I switched my settings the mirror changed and solved the problem by coincidence. Clearly the change had an impact. So that's good. > > >>>wget -qO- https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo > >>>apt-key add - > >> > >>No, please do NOT use "apt-key add" but instead download the key and put > >>it as a file with the suffix ".gpg" into the directory > >>/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ > >> > >I downloaded the file from the above URL, and copied it as root to > >/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d as instructed. Since all the other files in that > >directory were owned by root I made sure this one was too. And I renamed > >it to add .gpg on the end. > > That's for binary key files. This one is ascii armoured, so it needs an .asc > 'extension'. > Right, for the key issue, that has taken me right back to where I started: W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 1397BC53640DB551 Now that is the only complaint, which is a significant improvement on where I started thanks to the fixed mirror, but the key ID issue isn't solved. I tried naming the file linux_signing_key.pub.asc and linux_signing_key.pub.gpg.asc . Neither worked (in the sense that the warning above appeared). Since this is the warning I was getting to start with, it almost feels like this file is either not being read (although naming it ending .gpg causes mayhem so I guess it is) or it doesn't contain what I need. I downloaded it using the wget command above except without the -qO- because I wanted to see what wget was doing and I didn't want the downloaded result going to standard output. Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it new? Mark