NAME

       apt-key - APT key management utility

SYNOPSIS

       apt-key [--keyring filename] {add filename | del keyid | export keyid | exportall | list |
               finger | adv | update | net-update | {-v | --version} | {-h | --help}}

DESCRIPTION

       apt-key is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to authenticate packages. Packages
       which have been authenticated using these keys will be considered trusted.

       Note that if usage of apt-key is desired the additional installation of the GNU Privacy
       Guard suite (packaged in gnupg) is required. For this reason alone the programmatic usage
       (especially in package maintainer scripts!) is strongly discouraged. Further more the
       output format of all commands is undefined and can and does change whenever the underlying
       commands change.  apt-key will try to detect such usage and generates warnings on stderr
       in these cases.

SUPPORTED KEYRING FILES

       apt-key supports only the binary OpenPGP format (also known as "GPG key public ring") in
       files with the "gpg" extension, not the keybox database format introduced in newer gpg(1)
       versions as default for keyring files. Binary keyring files intended to be used with any
       apt version should therefore always be created with gpg --export.

       Alternatively, if all systems which should be using the created keyring have at least apt
       version >= 1.4 installed, you can use the ASCII armored format with the "asc" extension
       instead which can be created with gpg --armor --export.

COMMANDS

       add filename
           Add a new key to the list of trusted keys. The key is read from the filename given
           with the parameter filename or if the filename is - from standard input.

           It is critical that keys added manually via apt-key are verified to belong to the
           owner of the repositories they claim to be for otherwise the apt-secure(8)
           infrastructure is completely undermined.

           Note: Instead of using this command a keyring should be placed directly in the
           /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ directory with a descriptive name and either "gpg" or "asc" as
           file extension.

       del keyid
           Remove a key from the list of trusted keys.

       export keyid
           Output the key keyid to standard output.

       exportall
           Output all trusted keys to standard output.

       list, finger
           List trusted keys with fingerprints.

       adv
           Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can e.g. download key from
           keyservers directly into the trusted set of keys. Note that there are no checks
           performed, so it is easy to completely undermine the apt-secure(8) infrastructure if
           used without care.

       update (deprecated)
           Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from the local keyring
           the archive keys which are no longer valid. The archive keyring is shipped in the
           archive-keyring package of your distribution, e.g. the ubuntu-keyring package in
           Ubuntu.

           Note that a distribution does not need to and in fact should not use this command any
           longer and instead ship keyring files in the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ directory
           directly as this avoids a dependency on gnupg and it is easier to manage keys by
           simply adding and removing files for maintainers and users alike.

       net-update
           Perform an update working similarly to the update command above, but get the archive
           keyring from a URI instead and validate it against a master key. This requires an
           installed wget(1) and an APT build configured to have a server to fetch from and a
           master keyring to validate. APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on
           update instead, but Ubuntu's APT does.

OPTIONS

       Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the previous
       section.

       --keyring filename
           With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring file the command
           should operate on. The default is that a command is executed on the trusted.gpg file
           as well as on all parts in the trusted.gpg.d directory, though trusted.gpg is the
           primary keyring which means that e.g. new keys are added to this one.

FILES

       /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
           Keyring of local trusted keys, new keys will be added here. Configuration Item:
           Dir::Etc::Trusted.

       /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
           File fragments for the trusted keys, additional keyrings can be stored here (by other
           packages or the administrator). Configuration Item Dir::Etc::TrustedParts.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get(8), apt-secure(8)

BUGS

       APT bug page[1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see
       /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command.

AUTHOR

       APT was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.

AUTHORS

       Jason Gunthorpe

       APT team

NOTES

        1. APT bug page
           http://bugs.debian.org/src:apt