Everone, Thanks much for all the help -- luckily it works on my work connection so managed to get what I needed - getting the key from the web connection / sshed into another server seemed to make a lot of sense though -- shall keep it in mind for the future.
Fyi, I use an isp called Spearhead .. their speeds are decent, but all sorts of weirdness like this .. thanks again folks, Sanjay (sorry for top post) On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Ninad Pundalik <ninadsp16...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Sanjay, > > If I'm not wrong, you are trying to add a Launchpad PPA key. If you > connect to the net through a proxy, then there are 2 things you can > try, one of which will definitely work: > 1. Set the Proxy variable : Try running 'export > http_proxy=http://<ip-address>:<port>', and then the apt-key command. > If this doesn't work, edit the /etc/apt/apt.conf and add the line > 'Acquire::http::proxy "http://<ip-address>:<port>/";'. Save and exit. > Now, all apt-* programs will obey this Proxy variable. This works, > as I've used it many times on my college network, which is through a > proxy. > 2. Manually download the key and add it to the keyring : Go to the web > interfaces of any of the 3 key servers mentioned in the previous > lists, and search for the key by the fingerprint/name of the key > owner. You'll find the key. Download it if you can find a link, > otherwise, just copy the key, including the 'START PGP BLOCK' and > 'END' sections, paste it into a text file, and save it with a .pgp > extension. IIRC, you can use the GUI to add the key to the keyring, > otherwise, you can always do an apt-key add, and use the file as the > source. > > Hope this helps. > > Ninad S. Pundalik > http://twitter.com/ni_nad > http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog > GPG Key Fingerprint: 2DF7 B856 C75E C9F9 0504 C0EF D456 1946 7C45 2C69 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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