On Monday 21 February 2005 13:24, Olaf Van Loon wrote: > I hope I'm not taking up to much time from everybody but I finally got > myself to use LInux (fedora core 3) from the linux starter magazin in > holland > and I thought it was great that it was easy to install the basics. > After that I tried to install xine, i firts updated Yum and till that point > it was ok but then i tried to installed xine, there was a note that it was > good to do but I did't have any gpg public keys installed. I tried to do > that just like explained: > > "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 It obvious you have never used the command line before, but I will show you what your trying to do here? rpm , is the name of a program which is command line based, you run the program by typing rpm at a prompt. A prompt is found in a console or a terminal session. In windows they called it the command prompt and it looked like this: c:/> in linux there are generally two: [anything could be here]$ this ends with a $ sign indicating that you are logged as a normal user. [anything could be here]# this one ends with a # sign indication your are root user. same as administrator in windows. so open a terminal and look for the prompt mine looks like this: [root@chadlap chadley]# type in the command [root@chadlap chadley]# rpm but the command or program will need a set of instructions to tell it what to do. rpm can do alot of things like install and remove software, this is where the --import comes in, [root@chadlap chadley]# rpm --import so now you have started rpm with an option, so the term passing option to a program means you are tellin a program how to behave itself. Now the critical part public.gpg.key this in this case is the name of the file contaning a GPG public key, which rpm will use to test the rpm packages you try installing for validity. This is refering to a file that must exist, so just typing what you have is like putting a person in an empty round room, and telling that person to find the million buck stashed in the corner. Of course there will be objection. So basically you need to find out where the gpg key is, if you need to download it then make sure you know where in your file system you have saved it. and then run rpm --import /the/path/to/your/gpg/key Cheers -- -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers Proudly South African ISO9001:2000 Certified Production Line ======================================= LINUX - becuase I can do it my way. ========================================
