On 2019.03.26 03:40, David wrote:
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 14:33, <rlhar...@oplink.net> wrote:
Would someone kindly point me to (or email me) an example sources.list
for machines running Debian-9 (Stretch) in a LAN with an approx
server?
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I have used approx for many releases. But I've never used Synaptic.
I suggest to avoid using Synaptic until you have fixed command-line
apt. Synaptic might be what caused the problem.
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I saw Debian documentation which says that "apt" has been revised to
correct errors made when coding "apt-get". But then I saw other
documentation which recommended "apt-get" over "apt". I suppose this
question belongs in another thread...
I don't think 'approx' is responsible for the error message you
provided.
It appears to be a permissions problem of apt-get failing to read a
local
file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
I agree.
On stretch, I don't have that file.
It appears to be created by the menu item SETTINGS -> REPOSITORY menu of
synaptic. I found a discussion thread about the problem:
One reply said that the trouble was caused when the SETTINGS ->
REPOSITORY menu of synaptic was used, and that getting things running
right again required removal of the file /etc/apt/trusted.gpg. Another
reply lambasted that solution; however, in my experience it worked.
However, "apt update" did not run without error, because of my botched
editing of sources.list; I still needed a pristine copy of sources.list
which corresponded to installation with a mirror (approx). Thankfully,
I found the file on another machine here, so I copied that pristine
sources.list to the broken system. Then I executed "apt update" and
everything appeared to be good.
Then I started Synaptic, and RELOAD ran without error, so I used
Synaptic to install a file I needed, and now the system appears to be
running properly.
