Secure apt
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 <marutter at gmail.com> 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 at max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9 gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu (1) Michael Rutter <marutter at gmail.com> 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 <marutter at gmail.com>" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) edd at 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
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