On Monday 23 October 2006 13:34, Duff Mckagan wrote:
On 10/23/06, Duff Mckagan <mckagan@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/23/06, Ed Harrison <eharrison@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
** Reply to message from Duff Mckagan <mckagan@gmail.com> on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:41:39 +0530
I cannot install some softwares. The reason being ..the packages are unsigned!!
How do I install unsigned packages with apt-get?
Go to /etc/apt/conf.d and edit the file "gpg-checker.conf" by adding the line "GPG::Check no;"
This stop checking signatures. There are also some packages available that start "rpmkeys" that provide the signatures.
Thanks. But what are the disadvantages of not checking signatures? I hear the packages will never get updated if they don't have signatures or something like that...
I think you heard wrong. You just need to permit the installation with the --no-ch switch. But better install the signatures aka rpmkeys.
Also, while installing some packages, I get an error saying that some packages are not "installable".
For example, I tried installing FrostWire and it gave me the following errors.
OPPERSKULL:~ # apt-get install FrostWire Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: FrostWire: Depends: bsh2 but it is not installable Depends: icu4j but it is not installable Depends: jakarta-commons-net but it is not installable Depends: jmdns but it is not installable E: Broken packages
That means apt couldn't find the packages mentioned, i.e. bsh2, icu4j, jakarta-commons-net, and jmdns. You need to find a repository for your SUSE version that has those packages, and add that repository to /etc/apt/sources.list. Then try again, and hopefully all needed packages can be found. Cheers, Leen