[Slackbuilds-users] GPG key issue

J. Milgram milgram at cgpp.com
Wed Oct 22 17:02:51 UTC 2025


And of course, I have to figure out why this message was duplicated ... 
sorry about that.
JM

On 10/22/25 13:01, J. Milgram wrote:
>
> Oh, that's a good point! Thanks.
>
> So I became root and found that indeed root does *not* have the 
> required key.
>
> I'm baffled as to how sboupgrade & friends could have worked so well 
> for so long (a few years, many upgrades) without root having the 
> correct key, and what changed to make it stop working.
>
> Curious, but maybe I don't need to know everything :)
>
> Sounds like what I need to do is run as root and let sboupgrade 
> download the correct key. So here we go:
>
> /usr/sbin/sboupgrade signal-desktop ...
>
> ... wanted sbocheck run first. That downloaded the key. Then:
>
> ... run it again, and it works as advertised.
>
> Installs, runs perfectly. So other than the mystery about the gpg key, 
> I'm all set. Thanks for the help!
>
> regards,
>
> Judah
>
>
> On 10/22/25 11:13, Marco Moock wrote:
>> Am 22.10.2025 um 10:46:01 Uhr schrieb J. Milgram:
>>
>>> Huh? - I already have this  key  on my public keyring. So  I respond
>>> "n" and it tells me:
>> Which keyring?
>> Of your own user?
>>
>> When running as root, I assume root's keyring will be used.
>>
>>
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