If GPG key validation fails, check the key name #65
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This is a continuation of the issue I reported at:
BrowserWorks/Waterfox#2786
I have traced the issue, and it is not an obvious one, so I thought I should share the fix. It took me months and in the interim I had to use an AppImage of Waterfox because I could not install new versions from the repo.
Deleting and re-adding the PPA did not help. Fetching a new key did not help.
The issue is caused by a change of the filename in which the GPG key is kept.
The key is now called:
home_hawkeye116477_waterfox.gpg
It is kept in
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
, which is a folder I have never entered before.It does not help to remove the key, as I was advised in the previous bug report. The problem is that the filename used to be called
home:hawkeye116477_waterfox.gpg
andapt
still reads that key first.So it makes no difference how many times you remove or refresh
home_hawkeye116477_waterfox.gpg
so long as the older key with a colon instead of the first underscore is still present.Only when
home:hawkeye116477_waterfox.gpg
is removed doesapt
usehome_hawkeye116477_waterfox.gpg
instead. After this,apt update
runs fine, without error, and newer versions can be installed. Mine went straight from Waterfox 4 to version 5.1 once I discovered this.Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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