Debian: registering an apt repository key

See also: http://www.hackzine.org/register-apt-repository-key.html

Here is an useful script to register APT keys, to avoid the “There are no public key available for the following key IDs” warning message.

#!/bin/bash

# samu 2010-01-01
# (c) 2010 Samuele ~redShadow~ Santi
# redshadow&hackzine.org - http://www.hackzine.org
# Under Gnu GPL v3

KEYID="$1"

echo "Registering APT key $1..."
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys "$KEYID"
gpg --export --armor "$KEYID" | apt-key add -

Alternative: debian-archive-keyring

From: http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/11

apt-get install debian-archive-keyring

or, if you have unstable repositories:

apt-get install debian-archive-keyring/unstable

apt-key update

Another method, is just to run:

apt-key update

“This will obtain the necessary keys and import them. No need to go through gpg directly”.

Anyways, this method will not always work.

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