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software-center package

  1. Bug #705988
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 705988

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Michael E Granat (megranat) wrote : Re: [Bug 705988] Re: [master] Untrusted packages can not be installed

Seems to have been fixed in recent system updates since the more recent
version of software-center was rolled out some time ago.

Haven't experienced that issue since the 11.10 roll-out.

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 23:40 +0000, Michael wrote:

> Some of you might have a problem with missing PGP keys, which exposes
> this bug in a big way. That's because in that case all packages from an
> affected software source would be 'untrusted', as PGP keys are used to
> authenticate them.
>
> If that's the case, you might get it fixed by:
>
> cd /var/lib/apt
> sudo mv lists lists.old
> sudo mkdir -p lists/partial
> sudo apt-get update
>
> It worked fine for me. When you satisfy yourself that everything works
> fine, you can then delete the lists.old folder (it was taking about 70MB
> on my fresh 11:10 installation):
>
> cd /var/lib/apt
> sudo rm -r lists.old
>
> Source:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/70553/software-center-not-downloading
>