Hi Sanjay, If I'm not wrong, you are trying to add a Launchpad PPA key. If you connect to the net through a proxy, then there are 2 things you can try, one of which will definitely work: 1. Set the Proxy variable : Try running 'export http_proxy=http://<ip-address>:<port>', and then the apt-key command. If this doesn't work, edit the /etc/apt/apt.conf and add the line 'Acquire::http::proxy "http://<ip-address>:<port>/";'. Save and exit. Now, all apt-* programs will obey this Proxy variable. This works, as I've used it many times on my college network, which is through a proxy. 2. Manually download the key and add it to the keyring : Go to the web interfaces of any of the 3 key servers mentioned in the previous lists, and search for the key by the fingerprint/name of the key owner. You'll find the key. Download it if you can find a link, otherwise, just copy the key, including the 'START PGP BLOCK' and 'END' sections, paste it into a text file, and save it with a .pgp extension. IIRC, you can use the GUI to add the key to the keyring, otherwise, you can always do an apt-key add, and use the file as the source.
Hope this helps. Ninad S. Pundalik http://twitter.com/ni_nad http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog GPG Key Fingerprint: 2DF7 B856 C75E C9F9 0504 C0EF D456 1946 7C45 2C69 -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
