Automatically Install Missing PPA GPG Keys With One Command (or your money back*)

It worked, Thanks.

I have had so many problems with these keys in the past, and this clears up alot. I love your blog thanks for it. if you need free labor just contact me ill be more than willing to help you out with your blog.

Excellent!

I swear by this. I use it all the time! Excellent.

They should build it into Ubuntu. That’s all I’m sayin’

The script is too large. I don’t have the hard drive space to waste on such a huge script.

That’s brilliant! I’ve been looking for a way to backup my APT keys so I don’t have to retrieve them all again when reinstalling Ubuntu. Now I don’t have to! Thanks a lot!
Plus, I got to learn a little bit of scripting as well by peeking at the script. I’ve been looking for a command like the cut-command for a while now.

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Awesome, thanks for that.

This actually made updating a lot faster as well.

Cool script dude.

beautiful, thanks a million!!!

Thanks dude ! That was really helpful !

If you want to do this on something derived from Ubuntu, e.g. Linux Mint, you will need to edit the script and manually set the RELEASE variable. For Linux Mint Gloria this would be:
RELEASE=”jaunty”

sudo: ./launchpad-update: command not found

any comments to this error?

You probably haven’t either named the script correctly, or cd to the corrected directory.

You probably haven’t either named the script correctly, or cd to the corrected directory.

i changed the variable but cant seem to use it anyway :S
command line: $ sudo ./launchpad-update
Release:jaunty
Please Wait…
cat: keyss: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `keyss’: No such file or directory

please help out here!

Sadly, it did not work for me.
When I ran the script, all it said was:

Release: karmic
Please Wait…

and this persisted for half an hour at least. What could be the solution

Curious! I seem to get the very same thing yet this script worked a day or two ago…

Current dropbox link it’s dead… this is a google code hosted one that’s working:
http://apticons.googlecode.com/files/launchpad-update

The new link don’t work for me, I get a error forbidden.

This is the file from the Ubuntu forum, but I’ve uploaded the file on my Ubuntu One: http://ubuntuone.com/p/6rR/

It’s 625 bytes. You are talking baloney.

I call Shenanigans!

Fail. the link is a 404…

I’m getting a 404 error on Dropbox Anyone got a script to fix it?

I keep getting “command not found” I have it in the home folder. What am I doing wrong now? Sometimes I hate being a noob.

LOL.
Opera even gives me a fraud warning when trying to download the script.

I guess there’s a good reason to stick with the official repositories. :p
However…
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:blah/blubb
This adds a PPA to the sources AND imports its key.
And all that without shady scripts.

404!!!!

Some of the comments here say they were posted 9 months ago…

Very useful!

Google says there was the same post on 27.September 2009

search for “launchpad-update.tar.gz” WITH the “”

Oops! (404)
We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Check out our FAQ or forums for help. Or maybe you should try heading home.

if you look at the link of this post you can see year and mounth of this post(…/2009/09/…)

Dislike because link doesn’t work…

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6905264/launchpad-update.sh

ok….just downloaded….if the command doesn’t work try: sudo sh launchpad-update.sh ……..it works very good for me!

very well…….sorry!

or sudo ./launchpad-update.sh

yes….but this script is useful when a key has changed!

wow like it soooo much

This is a post from a while back, the link was broken and a few people were asking in the comments of another post for something like this so I dusted it off and fixed the link. No biggie.

I only clicked for the money… /o

This is great, I was just looking for something like this because I have about 10 PPAs and no keys, so the notifications that always came up after updating were getting annoying.

You could also use the command that is available on every Ubuntu install: ‘add-apt-repository ppa:blabla/blabla’.

That command takes the ‘ppa:blabla/blabla’ string and adds it to the package sources and then fetches the GPG key. All you have to do is run ‘apt-get update’ and everything should be working!

You have to mark it as executable.
chmod +x launchpad-update.sh

The problem with that method is it infers people remember specifically which PPA’s are missing their keys and that the users can be bothered going to find the proper PPA address (ppa:blahblah/blah) to do that with. For most – running this script once is easier than finding out the addresses for the 10 ppa’s missing their keys as it requires zero effort on their part. Ofc, quite how people have PPA’s missing keys given the new ‘command’ I’m not sure, but people do.

Thanks, that worked!

I had to copy paste and it worked. Try that.

I had to copy paste and it worked. Try that.

I had to copy paste and it worked. Try that.

You missed out the .sh part sudo ./launchpad-update.sh Very nice though, thanks.

Or you can just use Launchpad Getkeys from Webupd8:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/automatically-import-all-missing.html

The apt-add-repository doesn’t always guarantee that the key will be added. I’ve had a couple fail to add the GPG key.

mine works without changing anything…
(using Mint 9)

one command ^^
for i in `sudo apt-get -qq update 2>&1 | sed ‘s/.*PUBKEY //’`; do sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys $i; done

Finally! This line needs to get added to the main article. I’m sure Big Sarge and I aren’t the only ones who missed this step.

You need to set it as executable before running it. (right click –> permissions –> tick executable)

+1

I was wondering wtf was wrong with the script, but I should have already known.

thanks….this one worked for me

Hi there, I’ve just made simplier this script by making a “batch like” sequence of commands, leaving the hole process in “one (long) line”. Btw, I’ve also uploaded the script into my public dropbox as a mirror of mediafire. Just copy and paste the following line command in your terminal:wget https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/xetnyo2r5bnnh53/la... && mv launchpad-update.sh?dl launchpad-update.sh && chmod +x launchpad-update.sh && sudo ./launchpad-update.sh && sudo apt-get updateps. pueden visitarnos en seekNgeek blogspot para ver la nota completa. Gracias OMG por este script tan útil

Worked for me. Found two keys….
Rune Svendsen had a good idea about backing up your APT keys. I’m stealing that one..

it is NOT available in EVERY ubuntu install…
add-apt-repository was only added to ubuntu last year
it is ONLY available in karmic, lucid and meerkat
it can be added to jaunty by updating python-software-properties

Bad joke!

Works like a charms thanks!

Yep, me too.

sudo aptitude update 2>&1 | grep NO_PUBKEY | perl -pwe ‘s#^.+NO_PUBKEY (.+)$#$1#’ | xargs sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com

Thanks alot for this!

Not sure if this has been mentioned and just putting this out there but the article is wrong when executing the script. You need to enter terminal and make it executable through chmod +x launchpad-update.sh first. Then the command to run it is sudo ./launchpad-update.sh.

Wow. Works perfectly. No more errors!

The command didn’t work for me, but this one did to activate the script:
sudo bash ./launchpad-update.sh