Problems with the RPM

Beginner

Monday, December 1st 2003, 4:14pm

Hi everyone. I'm new on Linux and I know almost nohting. I'm using Mandrake 9.0 and when I try to run the kopete RPM I get this message error

"The Following packages have bad signatures"
<path of the RPM>

and this happens with every RPM I download, but sometimes the error says "Bad PGP Signature" or something like that.
So if anyone can help me I would be very thankfull

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ivancorea

Beginner

Posts: 2

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Monday, December 1st 2003, 4:25pm

Re: Problems with the RPM

Complementing the message (I forgot this part) if y try to install anyway then I get the following message:

"The signature of the package <package name> is not correct"
"gpg: Signature made <date> using DSA key ID <a number>"
"gpg: Can't check signature: publick key not found"

so anyone please help me. I'm desperated

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bichenoubi

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Monday, December 1st 2003, 8:06pm

It also happens to me, but I think you can still install the package.
It's only that the package is not an official one with a secure signature...

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m4ktub

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Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: Software Engineer

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Tuesday, December 2nd 2003, 9:59am

To install anyway use the the option --nosignature
[code:1]rpm -ivh --nosignature <rpm file>[/code:1]

But its better to download the PGP signature from the RPM provider. Try searching near the place where you got the rpm fom a public signature. Its not always easy to find the singature key.

For example Freshrpms (has packages mostly for redhat) has it's PGP signature key at http://freshrpms.net/packages/.

After you have the key you need to import it so that rpm can use it. It's something like [code:1]rpm --import <PGP Key file>[/code:1]
but I'm not sure about that. "man rpm" or Google can assist you there better than I.

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