Error saying The following signatures couldn t be verified because the public key is not available NO PUBKEY

Question

I have R version 2.13 and would like to update it to the newer version. I ran this command and ended uo with an error

sudo apt-get update

Error:

Reading package lists... Done

W: GPG error: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu oneiric/ Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 51716619E084DAB9

Answer 1

Try this:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 

Comments

worked well! thanks a lot