Rabbitmq-server: Ubuntu rabbitmq-server NO_PUBKEY 6B73A36E6026DFCA

[tiandavis]

Hey Folks!

Not sure if this is the best channel, but we're seeing an issue on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS where rabbitmq-server fails to install because the package cannot be authenticated.

Our install instructions look like this:

# Add key for rabbitMQ repo
wget --quiet -O - http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc | apt-key add -
apt-add-repository 'deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main'
# Install RabbitMQ
apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server

And the error message looks like this:

vagrant@precise64:/vagrant $ sudo apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rabbitmq-server
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 185 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/5,247 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,956 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  rabbitmq-server
E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
vagrant@precise64:/vagrant $ 

A sudo apt-key update, followed by a sudo apt-get update gives a little more info:

Fetched 5,213 kB in 14s (362 kB/s)                                
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://www.rabbitmq.com testing InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6B73A36E6026DFCA

The not so happy path is to run w/ the --force-yes flag:

apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server --force-yes

This installs rabbitmq-server, but we'd rather avoid that if at all possible because of the security implications. Not really sure where to proceed next and any help forward would be invaluable. Thanks Folks!

[michaelklishin]

The key has changed several weeks ago. It was annouced:

• On rabbitmq.com
• On rabbitmq-users

as well as on Twitter.

You're using the old key. See Debian installation docs for instructions.

[tiandavis]

Got it. Thanks!