Comments on: Easy Script To Get And Install PPA GPG Keys

By: nurseto

nurseto — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:26:36 +0000

thankyou,,, this really works!
i love karmic stuff when win7 makes me bored.

David Armour — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:34:36 +0000

Thanks for the script. Unfortunately, I’m still getting the following errors at the end of the process:

Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages 404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages 404 Not Found
Fetched 616B in 2s (221B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/Release Unable to find expected entry free/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/psyke83/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pascal-devuyst/printingbuginfo/ubuntu/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

A couple of questions:
I understand that “E” = error, but what does “W” mean?
How can I get rid of the “Failed to fetch” errors?

Any help at all greatly appreciated. TIA.

ingalex — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:35:21 +0000

Here you can find more than one script to add only missing gpg key or all gpg key: http://www.sourceslist.eu/guide/aggiungere-le-chiavi-gpg/

Grant Jackson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:22:01 +0000

I am using karmic in alpha form, and it just imported 2 keys for me no problem.

Lets hope it keeps working through the beta and final release stages.

silvernode — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:29:47 +0000

@nivosh open terminal and navigate to the directory with the script. Then type the following commands:

chmod +x launchpad-update

then

./launchpad-update

if you made it an executable before and you got that error you mentioned, it’s because you didn’t put ./ before the filename.