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Written by tek
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Friday, 02 December 2005 18:42 |
 I have been working more and more with Debian and while i started out years ago on debian and then went and played with everything else i find myself amazed by how sweet debian can be when you have the basics down. Debian is a very network dependant OS and that swords cuts both ways but the power of it is awe inspiring when wielded properly. The fun part is finding sources for programs not provided in debian main. The best starting point is usually http://www.apt-get.org. One of the issues here though is GPG keys. Someone else is packaging these programs up and signing or not signing them and your going to install them. Check out the source, most people working with debian are quite visible and if they are unsigned i tend to be weary. If they pass the test though and hopefully are signing their packages you can import their key easily enough.
Currently im running etch on my laptop. here is a copy of my sources.list file. ######## deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org//debian/ testing main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main # KDE 3.5 (not in sarge) # deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5-rc1/ ./ deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main deb-src ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main # Testing deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free # going for mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ experimental main ################ In trying to add the last two sources, and doing an apt-get update you will get an error message about missing gpg keys, specifically key fingerprint 1F41 B907, doing a quick google you might find that this key belongs to Christian Marillat. You can easily import his gpg key packages can be checked with apt-check-sigs only with apt-get 0.5.x Here is his fingerprint : 1D7F C53F 80F8 52C1 88F4 ED0B 07DC 563D 1F41 B907 To import his key from a GPG server : gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 With apt-get >= 0.6 do the following (sudo is needed) : gpg --armor --export 1F41B907 | sudo apt-key add - If you don't use sudo, do the following under root : gpg --armor --export 1F41B907 | apt-key add - Now runing apt-get update will not generate errors and if your getting errors about a different key find out who it belongs to and if you trust if you can do the same as above. Have fun!
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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:02 |
