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[Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

http://changelog.complete.org/archives/496-how-to-solve-the-following-
packages-cannot-be-authenticated#comment-3664

""""If you’ve disabled authentication in apt[itude] settings, you’ll
likewise get this error even if authentication is otherwise
possible/working"""

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apt-get authentication warning overridden
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507252
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Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: New

Bug description:
On a fresh (2010-01-13 -dev.iso) liveUSB made with make-usb-key.sh, having run sudo apt-get update after booting:

(~) % sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev                                                 puredyne 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev libxdmcp-dev
  x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb1-dev libxdmcp-dev
  libxpm-dev x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,339kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,349kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  x11proto-core-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev
  libpthread-stubs0 libpthread-stubs0-dev libxcb1-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://uk.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main x11proto-core-dev 7.0.15-1 [94.0kB]
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Investigating possible causes now, not entirely sure what the security implications are...