On Sunday 17 August 2003 06:40 pm, owenb wrote: > OK. > What is a GPG signature and how do I get one.? > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Sunday 17 August 2003 05:39 pm, owenb wrote: > >>I downloaded Fax2Send Complete -2.1-13 RPM for i386 following the > >>Mandrake Clubs note that a free package was available. I checked and > >>found that the required additional files were already installed. > >>But when I attempted to install the package I got the following message. > >>"Signature Verification Error > >>The signature of the package Fax2SendComplete -2.1-13.i386.rpm is not > >>correct. > >>No GPG signature in package" > >> > >> I stopped at this point. What went wrong? > >>I noted that the required files listed "/bin/sh" three times. Why the > >>redundancy? > >>Thanks, > >> Owen > > > >It probably means that you do not have the GPG signature from that site > > loaded on your machine or your machine was expecting a sig and didn't get > > one. I installed and had no problem. HTH > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Normally if there is one it will have a link to download the gpg sig for that provider. For instance texstar has his gpg key available here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/gpgkey.html So any of the rpm packages he makes available have that signature attached. That is the way I understand it any how. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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