[LBo] Mint Linux

[Billy Pollifrone]

Rob Matherly wrote:
> Troy wrote:
> 
>> I just installed Mint Linux, and when I go to updates, I'm told the software
>> cannot be authenticated.  From my understanding, Mint is based on Ubuntu,
>> and I don't recall seeing this message under Ubuntu.  Any ideas?
> 
> You know, I had a similar problem when trying to install KDE today on my
> Debian Etch install.  Everything was showing as "cannot be
> authenticated".  Then something REALLY got fubar'd and none of the
> repositories worked.
> 
> I installed a program to select the fastest apt repository and wrote the
> resulting output to /etc/apt/sources.list.  I ran synaptic, and was
> greeted with a bunch of failed hits.  I even tried manually entering the
> "stock" debian repositories manually, and couldn't get any hits.  My
> internet connection was running fine (could still browse and check mail,
> etc), so I dunno what was going on.

Although I don't recommend third party unauthenticated repositories, all
you need to do is use gpg to fetch the packager's key from a server,
then export from gpg to apt-key to add the key to apt and not have the
warning again. You are of course taking a risk as to whether the package
will even work with the system.

-- 
Billy Pollifrone
billy @ silverbaseball . com

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