[R-sig-Debian] Solution to apt-key depreciation

[Carl Delfin]

Michael,

Sounds great!

If it's any help, I put my solution in a bash script:

#!/bin/bash
KEY=/usr/local/share/keyrings/marutter.key

if [ -f "$KEY" ]; then
  echo "$KEY already exists"
  sudo apt install -y r-base
else
  wget -q -O marutter.key "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xe298a3a825c0d65dfd57cbb651716619e084dab9"
  if ! file marutter.key | grep -q "PGP public key"; then
    echo "marutter.key does not appear to be a valid PGP key - aborting!"
    exit 1
  else
    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/keyrings/
    sudo mv marutter.key /usr/local/share/keyrings/
    echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/local/share/keyrings/marutter.key] https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu groovy-cran40/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
 fi
 sudo apt install -y r-base
fi

Nothing fancy by any means, but it works and could perhaps be useful.

Cheers,
Carl

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 at 16:04, Michael Rutter <marutter using gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/17/21 7:27 AM, Carl Delfin wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Since apt-key will be deprecated in future releases of Debian (https://manpages.debian.org/testing/apt/apt-key.8.en.html), I recently got around to figuring out how to properly import Michael Rutter's key, based on this answer over at askubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/a/1307181.
> >
> > Perhaps something along those lines should be added to the README at https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Carl
>
> Carl,
>
> Thank you. I need to read these posts over to see if the instructions
>
> can be condensed, but this is very helpful.
>
> Michael
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