Debian 9.3's gpg issue is driving me crazy! I can't install anything outside of the default apt repos no matter what I try.

No matter what, apt always does the exact same thing. It adds the repo; then finds, imports, and processes the key; and finally fails with "gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found."

I've spent hours looking this up and trying to fix it.

Just. ARGH!
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Isn't there a switch for apt that skips signature checking? If it's a bug in your gpg version, you could use it to update gpg.
Or, if I've been on Arch for too long and have forgotten how apt works, you could always manually download and install the .debs.

@franga2000 That's how I've been installing things, but it stinks because I want to update everything via apt 🙁

@Root if it's a bug in the gpg binary or one of the libs, maybe you could downgrade manually to a working version

@franga2000 I haven't found any fixes for it yet, but that sounds the most likely.

sounds like you havent installed the repo key or the keyring is corrupted.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/...

should lead to some answers from what I hear.

If not, message me again. I rarely play with debian so this is as good as a chance as any.

@rootshell actually scratch that. Give me the package name @Root and I'll have a look as well.

@stop fresh install of debian. Adding the apt repo fetches and installs the key. It fails after that.

@rootshell I'll look tomorrow. I'm too tired tonight.

can you rebuild apt? maybe grab the latest source and try that way

@Root Is it working yet? Cause I'm still waiting. 😅

@notroot Hi, sorry! I've been busy with work and didn't have time / never remembered to make a list of failing packages/repos.

I'm using KDE.

The only one I can remember right off is ScudCloud, which is a bad example because it takes some effort: there is no debian-specific release, but the one for Ubuntu apparently works fine. (It's on the setup instructions). However, attempting to use the repo (with proper list changes) triggers the GPG issue.

I've run into this with several other, more normal repos as well, but I simply can't remember which they were. 🙁