2007 Feb 14 - Wed

Hints for Debian apt-get and Expired Public Keys

When running 'apt-get update', I encountered time out issues and this error:

W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A70DAF536070D3A1

A search came up with a solution at FreeSpamFilter.org Forum Site. The site recommended the following commands (where the key is the one from the above error message):

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys A70DAF536070D3A1
gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1 | apt-key add -

Before running 'apt-get update' again, based upon comments from Ubuntu Forums, I also ran the following two commands:

apt-get clean
apt-get check

The update process now runs cleanly.