[K12OSN] Yum and GPG keys

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:54, Henry Hartley wrote:
> When I try to run 'yum install' I am told:
> 
> You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing.
> However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download
> the keys for packages you wish to install and install them.
> You can do that by running the command:
>     rpm --import public.gpg.key
> For more information contact your distribution or package provider.
> 
> Okay, thinks me, I can do that.  I run 'rpm --import public.gpg.key' (as
> root) and get:
> 
> error: public.gpg.key: import read failed.

That's how you install a key.  You have to download it first and use
the real name.  The easy way is to run up2date up to the point where
it installs the key for you, then you can bail out and use yum.

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  Les Mikesell
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