Fwd: Apt-get error

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 18:55, Mike Bos wrote:
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> Subject: Apt-get error
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:20:05 +0100
> From: Mike Bos <mike.bos at consunet.nl>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 
> Hello,
> 
> can someone help me solving these error's? I can bypass them with -f but that
> doesn't seem so elegant.
> 
> [root at el-cajon apt]# apt-get install -f aumix-X11
> warning: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   aumix-X11
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 9 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/26.7kB of archives.
> After unpacking 47.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Checking GPG signatures...
> Unsigned warning: cannot get shared lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> E: Error: 1 unsigned packages
> 0 unknown signatures
> 0 illegal/corrupted signatures

Means aumix-X11 package isn't GPG signed. If you trust that it comes
from a valid source you can temporarily disable signature checking with
"-o rpm::gpg-check=false" option on the apt command line (or permanently
disable that from /etc/apt/apt.conf but that's not recommended)

	- Panu -