[K12OSN] Using Yum - Help

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Fri Jun 3 15:56:29 UTC 2005


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Mark Sarria wrote:

> 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....
> 
> I am I missing something, or better yet ,can someone educate me on the
> proper use of yum, for updates.
> 

Your use is fine, you just need to do one thing first.  (Load the gpg
key)

It is probably in /usr/share/doc/<distroname>/RPM-GPG-KEY or somewhere
similar

locate RPM-GPG 
may find it

Once you have it 

rpm --import <key file name>

and redo your yum command.

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