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Prajyot Chemburkar
Prajyot Chemburkar

Reputation: 46

GPG gives invalid packet (ctb=0a) error when trying to import public keys

Trying to update gives me an error saying public keys are not available: enter image description here

So I tried to import the keys using apt-key, which raises this invalid packet error: enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3971

Answers (1)

Prajyot Chemburkar
Prajyot Chemburkar

Reputation: 46

So I managed to fix this myself.

Issue:

gpg keyring is damaged

Soulution:

  1. Delete /etc/apt/trusted.gpg and all .gpg files in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
  2. Download launchpad-getkeys binary and execute it as sudo

Upvotes: 2

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