On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:19, Martin Marques wrote: > El Vie 05 Dic 2003 15:12, Jim Woodward escribiÃ: > > When I do: > > apt-get install mplayer > > it starts to do this, but then I get many 'uknown signature /var/...' > > errors. > > Does anyone know what I can do to correct this? > > One of two: > > 1) Try to get signed packages (like the fedora packages) for security reasons Note the error message: "unknown signature" .. the packages are signed, he's just missing the GPG key to check against. The GPG keys need to be fetched from the repositories in question (rpm.livna.org, freshrpms or whatever is used) > 2) Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and change inside the RPM block the GPG-Check to > false, like this > > GPG-Check "false"; This does allow installing those packages but is not recommended because by doing this you're disabling a security check. - Panu -
