installing for the first time

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:24:55PM +0100, 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
> For more information contact your distribution or package provider."
> 
> but then I get the answer:  error import read failed.
> 
> What should I do?

You should import the appropriate keys from the root directory of your
source of RPM packages. If you installed from CD then, as root, do
something like:

mount /media/cdrom
cd /media/cdrom
ls

The ls should show you a variety of files, including several
RPM-GPG-KEY*. Import the keys for those repositories you expect to
use, probably RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora and RPM-GPG-KEY. So:

rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

You can come back for the other keys later should you need them.

When you are done, cd back to your home directory, and eject the CD ROM

cd
eject /media/cdrom

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