Question
How To Fix NO_PUBKEY 77B79B3FFAF7EF65?
- Posted on December 9, 2022
- DigitalOcean Droplets
Asked by csc
I’ve been updating some of our droplets to 22.04 and came across this issue where it mentions: NO_PUBKEY 77B79B3FFAF7EF65. This occurs when I either try to apt update or do-release-upgrade.
I’ve tried some solutions like below and searched around, but realized that the key does not exist: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77B79B3FFAF7EF65
I assume sks-keyservers.net would’ve worked, but it’s down now and keyserver.ubuntu.com does not have the missing key 77B79B3FFAF7EF65.
Is there a quick solution to this? Since I’ll have to apply the method to multiple droplets.
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I also stumbled across this issue when running a simple
sudo apt-get updateon a 20.04 droplet seems like DO updated the do-agent apt gpg key on the 5th december. you can see the new one here: https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc and the old one they have as a backup: https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc.bkupi solved this with:
wget -qO - https://repos.insights.digitalocean.com/sonar-agent.asc | sudo apt-key add -its worth noting
apt-key addis depreciated but its a simple one-liner.I would appreciate some official DO guidance with the best way to update this across all my droplets
you can fix this problem by re-import the repository key Run this code
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 77B79B3FFAF7EF65
sudo apt clean
sudo apt update
I just encounter this problem today when upgrading my ubuntu droplet to 22.04. This thing didn’t happened when I upgraded another droplet to 22.04. Found out there are two keys for DO instead of one.
I exported both of keys using:
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/digitalocean-agent.list to this:
Run apt update, the warning should be gone. Then you can safely delete the keys