Scott: I have the same issue with the firewall.
My experience is that, after following Dirk's directions on the CRAN page for Debian/Ubuntu (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/), sometimes the web search gets returned with :11371 embedded in the URL and that gets blocked too. My low-tech solution is as follows. After I go to http://keyserver.ubuntu.com and do a search, I get: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex So I edit out the 11371 to get http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex and from that I get a webpage looking like the text below (with hyperlinks for each "E084DAB9"). I can then click the top link, save the result as key.txt and then follow the directions on the CRAN Debian/Ubuntu page above. (My previous low-low-tech solution was to pull up the page on my iPhone--with WiFi off--and email the text to myself. But the merely low-tech approach is less painful.) -Ian Result for http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex: Search results for 'rutter michael' Type bits/keyID cr. time exp time key expir pub 2048R/E084DAB9 2010-10-19 uid Michael Rutter <[email protected]> sig sig3 E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 [selfsig] sub 2048R/1CFF3E8F 2010-10-19 sig sbind E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 [] On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 18 March 2012 at 06:25, Scott Raynaud wrote: > | I am trying to add Michael Rutter's ppa to my > | repository. I cannot do this from the command > | line. I think I may be behind a firewall so copying > | the key to a text file is my best option. When I > | search for the key at > | > | http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/ > | > | the search fails. Tried typing and > | cutting and pasting E084DAB9 into > | the search box without success. How > | can I get the key? > > By reading up on the underlying 'web of trust' initially built around PGP, > and later GPG which is used here too. The idiomatic approach is to do a > 'gpg --search ....' where you also need to specify a server: > > edd@max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9 > gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu > (1) Michael Rutter <[email protected]> > 2048 bit RSA key E084DAB9, created: 2010-10-19 > Keys 1-1 of 1 for "E084DAB9". Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > n > Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 1 > gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu > gpg: key E084DAB9: public key "Michael Rutter <[email protected]>" imported > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) > edd@max:~$ > > > Dirk > > -- > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too > dark to read." -- Groucho Marx > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
