> With help from Johannes Ranke, I ran the following commands I happend to respond off-list because my other email I was answering from was not subscribed....
> sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/debian > jessie-cran3/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list' This one is not from me, just for the record... but seems to have done what it should. > apt-key adv --keyserver > keys.gnupg.net<http://keys.gnupg.net> --recv-key > 6212B7B7931C4BB16280BA1306F90DE5381BA480 What was the error message from this command? > This did not work, possibly due to a firewall blocking port 1137 on my > computer In earlier times, there was a service at http://keys.gnupg.net/ where one could retrieve plain text keys via http. In a renewed attempt to resolve this situation, I now found http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/ where you can search for key 0x381BA480, put it into a text file and add it to the keys known to apt using apt-key add xxx.txt. I am just updating the README on CRAN. > I resorted to doing a custom installation of openssl and curl Just for the record - I did not recommend that ... Johannes _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

