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Hello. I have been trying to install ros in debian jessie and I remain unsuccessful. I am not able to run the "sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 0xB01FA116". Can you please help me ?

asked 2015-12-18 05:17:30 -0500

mechatron
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It gives me an error "Host not found" when I run it. I also tried running the command without the port number but to no vain. In one post I read that it would help to rerun the command after sometime. But it has been 2 days and I am nowhere able to run this command. Can you please help me ? Is there a workaround for this problem ? Thank you

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Can you ping pool.sks-keyservers.net? On my system it resolves to 208.89.139.251. If all else fails, you could use that IP instead of the hostname and see if that works. But it would be a work around, and points to some issue with your DNS.

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answered 2015-12-18 14:17:56 -0500

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updated 2015-12-18 14:19:58 -0500

That was a brilliant suggestion. Thanks a lot. It worked :)

So as suggested in comments, I did ping "pool.sks-keyservers.net". I got the IP address from the command and used it in the command as follows "sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver 1xx.2xx.1.8 --recv-key 0xB01FA116".

Hope this helps anyone who has similar issues

Cheers

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I would really call this a work-around. The apt-key utility not being able to resolve that hostname to an IP seems to point to some issue with either your DNS or the way apt-key interacts with it. I only asked you to ping it so we could at least rule out a general DNS failure,

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Hello. I have been trying to install ros in debian jessie and I remain unsuccessful. I am not able to run the "sudo -E apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 0xB01FA116". Can you please help me ? edit

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