There are no public key available for the following key IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1
Submitted by ross on Thu, 11/23/2006 - 00:34
If you just ran apt-get update and you got:
There are no public key available for the following key IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1
then type:
sudo gpg --recv-key --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net A70DAF536070D3A1 sudo gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1 | apt-key add -
and all will be well.
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Easier solution
Instead of doing it manually:
# apt-get install debian-archive-keyring
This will upgrade the package and install the new key.
Hello, when I type the first
Hello,
when I type the first command line, I get:
edman@pc:~$ gpg --recv-key --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net A70DAF536070D3A1" not changed
gpg: requesting key 6070D3A1 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
gpg: key 6070D3A1: "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
And the second command line:
edman@pc:~$ gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1 | apt-key add -
gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `-': general error
gpg: import from `-' failed: general error
Bye
helps being root
You should be root while executing both commands.
In your case, you first added the key to your edman account, and later you (as user edman) tried to add the key to the global apt keyring, something only root can do.