Failing to get Public Key (openHAB installation Linux Debian)

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One of the following is going on:

  1. The signed-by part of the line didn’t work
  2. The openhab.gpg file didn’t get created or became corrupted or something like that. Make sure that there is a /usr/share/keyrings/openhab.gpg file.
  3. You’re running an older version of apt which doesn’t support using gpg keys like this. I don’t know when having separate keys for individual repos was added to apt. It’s only recently that it’s become the “best practice”.
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same issue on my end on Ubuntu

Get:10 https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable InRelease [12.8 kB]                                                    
Err:10 https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable InRelease  
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 075721F6A224060A
Hit:11 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                            
W: GPG error: https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 075721F6A224060A
E: The repository 'https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
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I just saw a PR go past sometime yesterday. There was a typo in the instructions. The echo "deb... command is using the wrong extension for the key. It should be pgp, not gpg.

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it works, thanks

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Thanks Rick

That change makes it work perfectly.

echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openhab.pgp] https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list

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It works for me too. Thanks!

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Thanks for this! I am curious though should it be gpg or pgp? I notice all the other keys I have in that fold are *.gpg. Not that is will stop it from working either way. It just stands out to me.

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The docs have been updated to use gpg.

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Huh? Next documentation still mixes up both openHAB on Linux | openHAB

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As we are on the release, it is not next documentation….

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@hmerk same applies for release docs at openHAB on Linux | openHAB. Ctrl+F pgp and ctrl+F gpg

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@rlkoshak @Confectrician Have the changes not been merged?

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Someone else filed an PR for the docs and I filed PR for the main web site and both were merged. I didn’t double check the PR for the docs page. I can confirm that it’s right on the downloads page but yes, it does appear to still be wrong in the docs. I’m not sure what could have gone wrong though.

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Hi,

I have the same issue with 4.0.0.M2 instructions . I have no public key for openhab.
it says gpg on the web page, is this right or do I have to change it to pgp?

Thanks

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File extension .gpg is correct.
But it doesn’t matter if you would use the file extension .pgp and refer to the same file from within the signed-by section in file located in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ it also would work

Did you follow the instruction on the download page to “create” the gpg public key ?

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I think so.
I started with

  1. Install a recent Java 17 platform
  2. Add the repository key
    and so on…
    What do you mean with “create”?
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there is one difference betrween stable and testing:
stable:

echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openhab.gpg] https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list

testing:

echo 'deb https://openhab.jfrog.io/artifactory/openhab-linuxpkg testing main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list

do I need this “[signed-by=…” as well?

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ok that was the reason… now it works…

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Hi Rich,
Thank you very much. That saved my date and my believe in openHAB.
It would be very useful if this information would be mentioned in the official documentation. I couldn’t find it.
All other “apt …” commands went well.

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I’m not sure where else that would go in the docs and it’s standard for apt repos and nothing specirfic to openHAB.

The instructions for apt on Download openHAB | openHAB discuss this file and what goes there. The [Linux installation instructions in the docs]( openHAB on Linux | openHAB) also discusses this file and what goes there.