On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > LANG= >> > sudo apt-get update >> >> Well, I did, although I like to know what I'm doing. The sudo etc I >> understand, but what's LANG= please? > > Did this then allow you to install the software without having to > install software that was un-authenticated? If so, then the update > grabbed the the digital signatures.
I sometimes (not many, two or three times in a last year, most of them relatively recently) find unsigned packages in aptitude. I suspect that it happens when I "apt-get update" while the mirror is being updated. I suppose that as long as you don't mess around with untrusted sources, and make sure that the "U" is removed when you actually install the package, then you are pretty safe. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
