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dreamuser098
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Debian Linux - Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring
When I run "sudo apt update" on my system I get an error about the Dropbox key being stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg) and apt-key being deprecated. I searched google for a...
- 3 years ago
Thanks! This worked.
For others that run into this problem:
Use a .zip/.tar/.rar extractor to open the .deb file and find the "postinst" file. Open in text editor and copy from "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" to "-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" and save as "dropbox.asc" into the /usr/share/keyrings/ directory. Edit "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list" to read "deb [arch=i386,amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/dropbox.asc] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid main" or whatever version of Debian you are using. Run apt update. It should not give you an error anymore.
dreamuser098
New member | Level 2
Thanks! This worked.
For others that run into this problem:
Use a .zip/.tar/.rar extractor to open the .deb file and find the "postinst" file. Open in text editor and copy from "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" to "-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" and save as "dropbox.asc" into the /usr/share/keyrings/ directory. Edit "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list" to read "deb [arch=i386,amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/dropbox.asc] http://linux.dropbox.com/debian sid main" or whatever version of Debian you are using. Run apt update. It should not give you an error anymore.
oscarmotaarq
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
It works on Ubuntu 22.04! Despite of the fact that in my terminal puts Ubuntu instead of Debian, but it's quite the same thing.
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