Launchpad itself

public key for mbudde/ledger cannot be obtained

Asked by Patrick Martin

Xenial (16.04)

$ uname -a
Linux TIMELINE-UBUNTU 4.4.0-45-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 14:12:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mbudde/ledger
 To install:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mbudde/ledger
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ledger

Ledger is a double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface (http://ledger-cli.org).

The package is maintained in Git at http://github.com/mbudde/ledger
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~mbudde/+archive/ubuntu/ledger
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcqw3zln3/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcqw3zln3/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 0F893052 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: key 672C7F726BA790299FADA7B3EAEE6D320F893052 can't be retrieved
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
gpg: keyserver communications error: keyserver helper general error
gpg: keyserver communications error: unknown pubkey algorithm
gpg: keyserver receive failed: unknown pubkey algorithm

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This question was originally filed as bug #1641392.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

The key is on the keyserver and downloadable. Are you behind any firewalls or proxies that might be interfering? What does "gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 672C7F726BA790299FADA7B3EAEE6D320F893052" say?

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Patrick Martin (patrickmmartin) said : 		#2

I don't believe so at the time.

And now I get

$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 672C7F726BA790299FADA7B3EAEE6D320F893052
gpg: keyring `/home/patrick/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/home/patrick/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 0F893052 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /home/patrick/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 0F893052: public key "Launchpad PPA for Michael Budde" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mbudde/ledger
[sudo] password for patrick:
 To install:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mbudde/ledger
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ledger

Ledger is a double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface (http://ledger-cli.org).

The package is maintained in Git at http://github.com/mbudde/ledger
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~mbudde/+archive/ubuntu/ledger
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpngbrvsri/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpngbrvsri/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 0F893052 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpngbrvsri/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 0F893052: public key "Launchpad

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ledger

these worked - transient issue?

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

There was an issue with one of our keyservers at the time. That's fixed now, so hopefully it'll be reliable in the future.

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