1. Removing the _apt user is really not needed nor a good idea. Its enough to have this in a config file: APT::Sandbox::User "root"; // remove file again after testing! 2. Symlinking /usr/bin/gpgv to /bin/true will never work as verifying signatures is more involved then just checking the exit code… there are ways to have a similar effect, but as that would be an enormous security hole I am not going to describe it here for fear of someone blindly copying it. Obviously NOT a good idea at all.
Now that we have that out of the way two "common" problems: 1. Check that /tmp has reasonable permissions. It should have 1777 and be owned by root:root. 2. ls -ld /etc/apt/trusted.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/* Everything shown should be owned by root:root and everything world-readable (= the last of the three r's). (the first is hard to detect, the second has a proper warning in newer apt versions) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577926 Title: apt-key works fine, yet apt fails with "Could not execute 'apt-key'" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1577926/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
