Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

2010-01-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-07 17:42 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Install the debian-keyring package. > > Thank you! That solves the problem. But it requires 26M of disk space! > Wow! It's just a collection of keys, right? Why is it so big? > Are there

Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

2010-01-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-07 at 11:04:18 -0500, Sven Joachim wrote: > Why do you run apt-get source as root? I am used to being root when I run apt-get because this is required when installing a binary package. I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that installing a source package also required root privileges. But s

Re: apt-get source produces gpg error. Can't check signature: public key not found

2010-01-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-07 16:37 +0100, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am trying to get the source code for a Debian package with > > apt-get source xxx > > where xxx is the name of the package. The retrieval of the source package > appears to have been successful, but I get error messages along the way: > > gpg: