Synaptic not feeling well

[Paul Howarth]

דותן כהן wrote:
> This message is posted two two lists as I am quite uncertain as to
> which of them would be less unappropriate.
> 
> Today, when I went to open synaptic from the kde menu on FC3, I
> noticed that it was missing! So I opened it from a terminal, but
> cannot update- no matter what I try to update I get this error (or one
> vey similar):
> 
> APT system reports:
> E: Unknown signature
> /var/cache/apt/archives/taglib_0%3a1.3.1-1_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1
> md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#1ac70ce6)
> E: Unknown signature
> /var/cache/apt/archives/amarok_0%3a1.1.0-2_i386.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1
> md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#1ac70ce6)
> E: Error(s) while checking package signatures:
> 0 unsigned package(s)
> 2 package(s) with unknown signatures
> 0 package(s) with illegal/corrupted signatures
> 
> 
> Um, what can I do? I should probably mention that I have about two
> weeks of linux experience under my belt.

# rpm --import 
http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Pre-Extras

That should fix the "missing keys" problem.

As for why synaptic would go missing from the KDE menu, I've no idea; I 
don't use either synaptic or KDE myself.

Paul.