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Cannot get updates Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/apt/do-agent main InRelease
Get:2 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]          
Hit:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease           
Hit:4 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease         
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]      
Get:6 https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/apt/droplet-agent main InRelease [5518 B]
Hit:7 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease                 
Err:6 https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/apt/droplet-agent main InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 35696F43FC7DB4C2
Fetched 384 kB in 1s (411 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/apt/droplet-agent main InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 35696F43FC7DB4C2
W: Failed to fetch https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/apt/droplet-agent/dists/main/InRelease  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 35696F43FC7DB4C2
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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Hi,

I ran into this problem today also. I do not know what changed that necessitated this, but this resolved it for me:

wget -qO- https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sudo bash

Several other methods of adding the key did not work. For whatever reason, only the above did.

Thanks, Vishnu

To fix this I had to fully remove and re-install the digital ocean agent, which meant:

  1. sudo dpkg --configure -a
  2. sudo apt-get remove droplet-agent
  3. sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/droplet-agent.list
  4. sudo apt-get update
  5. wget -qO- https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sudo bash

Same problem. Did you/anyone get an answer? Support is impossible to reach which I find disappointing. The last time I needed support was perhaps a few years ago and I do not recall it being unavailable or buried so deep to have made the search cost so high that I gave up trying to find out how to get Digitalocean to unbreak our servers.

EDIT: I just saw the thread. It is solved, but nevertheless annoying/disappointing/dissatisfying. I am particularly annoyed at the impossibility of even asking Digitalocean staff for support. Cannot create a support ticket without logging in, cannot log in because there is no password, cannot get password - perhaps only available if I pay them for support to not break my servers. Insane.

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