Comments on: Small Tip: How to fix “There are no public key available for the following key IDs” Error in Debian

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:45:00 +0000

Excellent tip! the apt-ket update didnt work, but your instructions for using gpg worked great for me

Alucard — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:09:00 +0000

sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True

>> This should work

John — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000

More notes on this:

Debian PUB_KEY Problems « Le Blog de Maurice — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:02:00 +0000

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Peter — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:32:00 +0000

Even “apt-get install debian-archive-keyring”
did not work for me.

The problem was, that I had really old
expired keys on my system that didn’t get updated
by the install of debian-archive-keyring.

The complete solution was:
apt-key list
apt-key del 1DB114E0
apt-key del 4F368D5D
apt-key del 2D230C5F

ie. run “apt-key del” for all keys marked expired in
“apt-key list” output

Then finally:

dpkg –purge debian-archive-keyring
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

apt-get update warnings « Thoughts — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:56:00 +0000

Brett Sheffield — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:17:00 +0000

# apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

is apparently a better way to solve this without adding unverified keys to apt-secure if apt-key update doesn’t work for you.

Brett Sheffield — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:09:00 +0000

Tried apt-key update to no avail. The gpg instructions worked a treat though. Thanks for the tip!

Kurt Fitzner — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:17:00 +0000

There is already a mechanism to do this automatically:

$ apt-key update

This will obtain the necesary keys and import them. No need to go through gpg directly.

psytroll — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:28:00 +0000

great tips thanx ..
had problems for weeks with that ..
thnx !