Re: [LUG] Advice please

[Guy Backhouse <hillguy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All's well that ends well! Update Manager today reared it's head with a
new batch of installs including tzdata again, it and everything else
downloaded and installed just fine.

thanks for the thoughts

Guy

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 21:20 +0100, Kevin Lucas wrote:
> tzdata  This package contains data required for the implementation of
> standard local time for many representative locations around the
> globe.
> 
> found in /usr/share/doc/tzdata/
> 
> are you local?
> 
> this is a Local Time for Local people 
> 
> Just wondering....
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 19:45 +0100, Guy Backhouse wrote:
> > Have not knowingly introduced any PPA's and am not sure how to access
> > application sources list?  
> > What I have done is  untick each of the three packages in turn and find
> > consequentially libpsclite1 & rsync downloaded just fine.  This left
> > tzdata the 'can't be authenticated' culprit, but why?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 10:06 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> > > Do you have any non official repositories in your application sources
> > > list?  Things like PPAs, etc?
> > > 
> > > Grant
> > > 
> > > > On 30 Apr 2011 09:28, "Guy Backhouse" <hilguy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Update Manager is bringing up a 'Summary' screen warning that the
> > > > updates about to be installed "can't be authenticated"
> > > > 
> > > > The exact warning reads:
> > > > "You are about to install software that can't be authenticated!
> > > > Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take
> > > > control
> > > > of your system"
> > > > 
> > > > The packages concerned are;
> > > > libpcsclite1 (version 1.5.3-1ubuntu4.1) will be upgraded to version
> > > > 1.5.3-1ubuntu4.2
> > > > rsync (version 3.0.7-1ubuntu1) will be upgraded to version
> > > > 3.0.7-1ubuntu1.1
> > > > tzdata (version 2011e-0ubuntu0.10.04) will be upgraded to version
> > > > 2011g-0ubuntu0.10.04
> > > > 
> > > > What's going on here, should I be concerned, any advice is
> > > > appreciated
> > > > but the bottom line - is it safe to do the download?
> > > > 
> > > > Guy
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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