public key is not available

[djringjr]

The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5CA76B26C40956B8

How do I get the PUBKEY?  What's the name of the server?

Regards,
David

[duststuff]

Someone may be able to help you if you provide more information. For instance, what were you doing or trying to do when you got this message? I think there may be a signing key for verifying Sparky isos and perhaps a different one that is used by system upgrade tools and repos. On the Sparky wiki, there are instructions about verifying isos, but the key ID referenced there is different than the one you posted.

If this key you've referenced is one that is accessed online rather than locally on your system, then I guess there's always the chance that the server your system is trying to access is temporarily down; if so, then it might work as expected later if you try again.

When you're looking for help on this or other similar forums, it would be good for you to mention what version of OS (i.e. Sparky here) you're using along with the window manager (WM) and/or desktop environment (DE). You can use the command-line tool 'inxi' and its various options to generate general / specific / relevant information about your system that you can then copy from the terminal (Shift + Ctrl + C) and paste into your post here using the code markers for easier readability. (Hover over the icons above where you're writing till you see the one marked 'Code', click on that and it should give you code markers like this: "code""/code" except with bracket markers in place of the quote markers. Then just paste the inxi output from the terminal between the code markers so it will show up correctly [you can use the preview option to check it's working as expected].) The 'inxi' tool has lots of different options -- here is just one example: 'inxi -Frz'. The '-F' option includes basic information for quite a few parts of your system, the '-r' option provides details on your repos, and the '-z' option filters out some things for privacy / security, which is probably a good idea when posting in public spaces like this forum.

[djringjr]

Someone may be able to help you if you provide more information. For instance, what were you doing or trying to do when you got this message? I think there may be a signing key for verifying Sparky isos and perhaps a different one that is used by system upgrade tools and repos. On the Sparky wiki, there are instructions about verifying isos, but the key ID referenced there is different than the one you posted.

If this key you've referenced is one that is accessed online rather than locally on your system, then I guess there's always the chance that the server your system is trying to access is temporarily down; if so, then it might work as expected later if you try again.

When you're looking for help on this or other similar forums, it would be good for you to mention what version of OS (i.e. Sparky here) you're using along with the window manager (WM) and/or desktop environment (DE). You can use the command-line tool 'inxi' and its various options to generate general / specific / relevant information about your system that you can then copy from the terminal (Shift + Ctrl + C) and paste into your post here using the code markers for easier readability. (Hover over the icons above where you're writing till you see the one marked 'Code', click on that and it should give you code markers like this: "code""/code" except with bracket markers in place of the quote markers. Then just paste the inxi output from the terminal between the code markers so it will show up correctly [you can use the preview option to check it's working as expected].) The 'inxi' tool has lots of different options -- here is just one example: 'inxi -Frz'. The '-F' option includes basic information for quite a few parts of your system, the '-r' option provides details on your repos, and the '-z' option filters out some things for privacy / security, which is probably a good idea when posting in public spaces like this forum.

I am trying to take a minimal installation of Debian which includes espeakup and brltty for blind access.  I'm using the latest Debian, and I want to get the Sparky Linux repos on this system.

I copied the /etc/apt/* files to a USB stick from a working Sparky Linux system.

I made a list of the applications installed from that system and was trying to install those packages. I figured out. Except for getting the keys in the keyring, I did this (I forgot to write the steps down.)

To get an installed package list:

dpkg --get-selections > ~/Package.list
sudo cp -R /etc/apt/sources.list* ~/
sudo apt-key exportall > ~/Repo.keys

To restore the package list on my talking Debian.

sudo apt-key add ~/Repo.keys
sudo cp -R ~/sources.listtc/apt/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dselect update
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

BINGO!

Everything works!

Thank you,
David

[duststuff]

Hey David, glad to hear you got it working. :-) It would be great if you would edit the title of this topic / thread to include '[Solved]' at the beginning or end, as this may help others who are searching the forum for a similar problem.