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When i run sudo apt-get update, i get the following error

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21.

I tried searching for it, but wasn't able to find anything helpful. What is the reason for this, and how can i fix this?

Edit1: I am using Linux mint 9.

Edit2: On sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu, I was getting gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host, so i did according to this post. When I run sudo apt-get update, it gives no errors. But, firefox 5 is still not installed. In my update manager when I try to install, it says "Fix broken packages first". In Synaptic manager there is an option of "Fix broken Packages", but it does nothing. What is going wrong here?

Edit3: Update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources, and Upgrade is used to install latest versions. So, I was forgetting about upgrade!

Thanks!

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try this: apt-get --fix-broken – Sunny Jul 1 '11 at 15:23
@Sunny : --fix-broken is to be used with one command, right? I used it as apt-get --fix-broken update, still firefox is not updated. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 16:33
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Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, and comment out the offending line (add "#" at the beginning of the line). The line you are looking for should have "ppa" in it. Save the file. Pls - note which ppa was mentioned there.

If in sources.list there is no ppa mentioned, check the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ for a file which has "ppa" mentioned in there". Move this file to somewhere (so you have backup).

Then do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:any-ppa-that-I-need

This will add the ppa back to sources, but will fetch and install the pgp key as well.

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How to know which ppa to add? Currently in my sources.list file there is no ppa. But in the directory sources.list.d there is mozillateam-firefox-stable-lucid.list which has ppa in it. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 13:34
then just move this file out (so you have backup): mv mozillateam-firefox-stable-lucid.list ~, then add the repo again. (see the exact ppa name in that file). – Sunny Jul 1 '11 at 13:44
Please take a look at my edit2. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 15:15
Thanks! With your method, I was able to update my system. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 17:03
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The most direct method is to use apt itself:

$ apt-key update

The Ubuntu Forums have a couple things to say about this using more roundabout methods, if apt doesn't do it properly.

ok. I figured it out.

do this:

wget http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/12B83718.gpg

and then open up synaptic and go to settings>repos>authentication and "import file key" browse the key and click ok.

and then sudo aptitude update

And this:

sudo wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

This is the link to my Google search - there's quite a bit much there to put in a single response.

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apt-key update does nothing. The second link that you gave, when I run wget, I get ERROR 503: Service Unavailable. and the last link that you gave, on wget I get 404 Not Found. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 13:06
Please take a look at edit2. – Priyank Bhatnagar Jul 1 '11 at 15:16
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