Using the GPG signature checking with apt 0.6

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 19, 2005 3:42 PM EDT
Debian Administration; By Steve Kemp 		Mail this story
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If you're running a Debian Unstable installation you'll likely have noticed that new package installations, and upgrades, are now prompting for confirmation - warning about package checking. This is because the most recent version of APT supports checking package signatures with GPG...This is a useful thing, as it provides reasonable certainty that the packages you're downloading are the packages you were intended to get.

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