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No dirmngr even though present in /usr/bin/dirmngr-- WSL Ubuntuo 18.04

I receive the following error despite haveing dirmngr in my bin:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.HNVQN8gpYv/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 gpg: connecting dirmngr at ‘/tmp/apt-key-gpghome.HNVQN8gpYv/S.dirmngr’ failed: IPC connect call failed gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr

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tdfyoder • August 27, 2019
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Thank you Alex-- I ended up using:

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```gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
alexdo
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• August 27, 2019

Hello,

The temporary fix to pass this problems is using apt-key add instead adv options through wget or curl ::

curl -sL "http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA6A19B38D3D831EF" | sudo apt-key add

Let me know how it goes.

Alex