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There have been a number of new keys issued for PPA on the Launchpad site. If you are getting an error similar to the following, then here is how you fix it.

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 60D11217247D1CFF
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Execute the following command replacing with the alpha-numeric string after the NO_PUBKEY message. In the example above the key was 60D11217247D1CFF

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv _missing key_

Followed by this command:

gpg --export --armor _missing key_ | sudo apt-key add -

This will download the missing public keys and add them to the apt key repo.

Note: There may be multiple keys that are missing. Simply repeat for each missing key.

UPDATE: ‘blackgr’ on the ubuntuforums released a script to automate this. If you have an account there and are missing a number of keys, this can speed things up considerably. This script can be found on post #43 on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1047743&page=5

UPDATE 2: Here are details about what is happening. http://news.launchpad.net/ppa/adding-a-ppas-key-to-ubuntu

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