On debian, have you got a gpg2 executable? If so, that executable may be more current and if so possibly work better.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, Thomas George wrote: > I am still trying to do a fully verified installation of debian-11.5.0. > > gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS responded with DF98...BE9B > > gpg --recv-keys DF98...BE9B responded key DF98...BE9B: new key but contains no > user ID - skipped. > > Another source suggested gpg --key-server keyring.debian.org --recv-keys long > numeric key > > but this responded invalid option --key-server > > The gpg man page is beyond me, I need help > > >