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At work I have an ubuntu desktop behind a proxy. I configured my proxy as follows: Under Settings > Network > Network proxy : Method set to "automatic", set a URL and applied system wide.

This enabled access to the internet (eg firefox), except for apt-get. To get apt-get working, I followed these instructions, specifically under "Setting up apt-get to use a http-proxy > APT configuration file method". With these settings I can install packages (eg thunderbird), but I have a problem when I add a new repository:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net vivid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 737F9811F93FF666

I'm assuming this has something to do with the proxy, but I can't seem to fix it with any method/tip I have found online so far. For example, adding the proxy settings as environment variables (export https_proxy=...) and then using sudo -E did not help.

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sudo -i
export http_proxy=http://foo.bar.com:1234 # change this to the correct values
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 737F9811F93FF666
exit

Hope that works for you. If it doesn't then maybe post the error you get

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  • It worked, thanks :) but does this mean I will have to explicitly import every key for a new repo like that? Or is there a global configuration change I can make to solve this problem once and for all?
    – PieterV
    Sep 28, 2015 at 7:09
  • you can use apt-add-repository to automate getting the key for PPAs.
    – ssta
    Sep 28, 2015 at 8:41

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