[SOLVED] gpg --recv-keys ERROR

04 November 2020, 13:42:43

Installing palemoon-bin I've to recover the program key. Usually, with the command gpg --recv-keys <key to install> all is fine but now I receive this message:

supernova:[MrX]:~$ gpg --recv-keys 865E6C87C65285EC
gpg: ricezione dal keyserver fallita: Errore generale

I've the same error also on the notebook that I use daily; was a lot of time that I didn't use this command.

Any idea? Thank you

Re: gpg --recv-keys ERROR

Reply #1 – 04 November 2020, 13:56:47

The solution was here, Thank you Glats:

The keyserver sometimes are outdated so you have to pick the one is updated. The server more updated i found is https://pgp.circl.lu
You need to add it on
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$ vi /etc/pacman.d/gpg.conf

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keyserver hkps://pgp.circl.lu

The last week multiples keyserver were down. So you have to be aware if you encountered with this error.

If you instal something yiwht yay or another aur helper and need to import a key, you need to configure it this way:
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$ mkdir -p ~/.gnupg/
$ vi ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

then add
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keyserver hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net