On Sunday 03 October 2021 01:13:19 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Sunday 03 October 2021 11:02:46 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > (snip) > > > What amount of output does an apt-get update give you? > > > > Nine lines starting with "Get:", "Ign:", "Hit:" etc. > > > > "The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found." > > > > "Is the package apt-transport-https installed?" > > So I figured I'd look, and sure enough, it's not installed. I told it to > do so, and while that seemed to go okay for a bit at the end of the process > I get a box popped up saying "An error has occurred". In the box it says "W: > Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file > 'var/cache/apt/archives/partial/apt-transport-https_1.4.11_amd64.deb couldn't > be accessed by user '_apt'.-pkgAcquire::run (13 Permission denied) > > No idea what the problem is here... But then I looked, and synaptic tells me that it _is_ installed in spite of that message. So I tried apt-get update again, and the results are slightly different. A bunch of lines starting with Hiit:1, Ign:2, Hit:3, Hit:4, Get:6, Ign:6, Get:7. (No idea why 5 isn't in there.) This time I get a different error:
W: GPG error: https://download/virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not avaiolable: NO PUBKEY A2F683C52980AECF followed by a couple more lines the last of which refers me to apt-secure(8). -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
