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k4leg

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Registered: 2021-11-14

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`pacman-key --init`

The following is written in the `/etc/pacman.conf` file:
```
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
```
Is this mandatory or is the hook from archlinux-keyring doing everything needs to do?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,771

Re: `pacman-key --init`

Pacstrap will do that during normal installation. If you had a problem with this you'd notice rather quickly since you wouldn't be able to install packages unless you disabled the signature checking in the first place.

y5

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Registered: 2022-12-04

Posts: 8

Re: `pacman-key --init`

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Last edited by y5 (2022-12-06 22:23:56)

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 920

Re: `pacman-key --init`

did a fresh install with archlinux-2022.11.01-x86_64.iso & after the command archinstall i kept getting keyring error till i did pacman-key --init so am guessing it is mandatory now.

curprev 12:07, 3 October 2022 Nl6720 talk contribs 17,249 bytes +3 →Install essential packages: use pacstrap -K to generate a new pacman master key instead of copying it from the host, this avoids issues if the host's keyring was created when the time/timezone was incorrect and should generally be considered "safer"; see Talk:Installation guide#Use pacstrap -K

(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=750948)

Last edited by d.ALT (2022-12-05 07:26:11)

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y5

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Re: `pacman-key --init`

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Last edited by y5 (2022-12-06 22:23:46)

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: `pacman-key --init`

How long did you wait before coming to the conclusion that it wasn't working previously?

The pacman-init script needs to wait until it has enough entropy before it completes.

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