Logged in to terminal some time ago and I was persistently offered the option to do-release-upgrade, obviously to Ubuntu 22.04LTS. I wasn’t in a rush, so it is only now that I am trying to do the upgrade. And it won’t!
apt update and apt upgrade both fault that some public keys are not available. For example:
=start=quote=
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.insights.digitalocean.com/apt/do-agent main InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 77B79B3FFAF7EF65
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.insights.digitalocean.com/apt/do-agent/dists/main/InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 77B79B3FFAF7EF65
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.
=end=quote=
apt dist-upgrade resolved some of the package held back issues but still the no public key remains as shown in the quote above
Oh dear! Although apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade has done all they can, it clearly isn’t enough because do-release-upgrade then responds:
=start=quote= Checking for a new Ubuntu release Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading. =end=quote=
Any ideas on how to progress would be welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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Hey @jeffdeacon,
The same has been experienced here, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-fix-no_pubkey-77b79b3ffaf7ef65?comment=192177
Basically, you need to update the keys. There are a couple of ways to go about the problem. DO updated the do-agent apt gpg key on the 5th december. you can see the new one here: https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc and the old one they have as a backup: https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc.bkup
i solved this with:
wget -qO - https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc | sudo apt-key add -
its worth noting
apt-key add
is depreciated but its a simple one-liner.Another way to go about this is to follow these steps:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get remove droplet-agent
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/droplet-agent.list
sudo apt-get update
wget -qO- https://repos-droplet.digitalocean.com/install.sh | sudo bash