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

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:48:00 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:06:00 +0000

Wow. Works perfectly. No more errors! :)

By: Kent Storbakken

Kent Storbakken — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:03:00 +0000

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.

By: s0l1dsnak3123

s0l1dsnak3123 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Thanks alot for this! :)

By: igorp1024

igorp1024 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:28:00 +0000

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

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:23:00 +0000

Yep, me too.

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:41:00 +0000

Works like a charms thanks!

By: XFACT

XFACT — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:52:00 +0000

Bad joke! :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:37:00 +0000

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

By: rMatey180

rMatey180 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:24:00 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:12:00 +0000

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 update

ps. pueden visitarnos en seekNgeek blogspot para ver la nota completa. Gracias OMG por este script tan Ãºtil :)

By: Amith Viswanath

Amith Viswanath — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:14:00 +0000

thanks….this one worked for me

By: Solomon

Solomon — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:49:00 +0000

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

By: Carl Draper

Carl Draper — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:28:00 +0000

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

By: BostonPeng

BostonPeng — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:20:00 +0000

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.

By: sxecry

sxecry — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:06:00 +0000

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

By: Grey Beard

Grey Beard — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:01:00 +0000

mine works without changing anything…
(using Mint 9)

By: Heimen Stoffels

Heimen Stoffels — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:59:00 +0000

Or you can just use Launchpad Getkeys from Webupd8:

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:59:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:52:00 +0000

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