Dear Aurorans,

Please help: having followed the advice given in several topics here


and receiving the response:



I STILL get the bad key response.

I look forward to further advice,

Thanks,

simon

Eeebuntu.key has been added to File Browser... and on double click tells me:



... which sounds encouraging...

Is the problem that the key has not been assigned?

Best,
Simon

System>Administration>Software Sources>Authentication>Import Key ... browse to location of key.

Remeber that you have to do a "aptitude update" or click on Reload in Synaptic after adding keys. If you add the key and then immediately do "aptitude install latestcoolappforaurora" you still get a GPG key error.

Also the better form for adding the key is:


In your example wget saved the key as a file to the hard drive and apt-key then read the file off the drive rather than any information being passed through the pipe (|)

The " - " in about commands indicate stdout and stdin and the pipe takes the stdout from wget and passes it along to stdin of apt-key which is where it expects to read from as you gave it - instead of a filename.


The pipe above isn't actually used at all, the data is written to a file first and then separately read from that file.


The data gets passed directly through the pipe from one command to the other with no intermediate file required (ignoring the fact that strictly speaking a pipe is also a file )