GPG issues again. 2025 Noble Webmin

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Ubuntu 22.04LTS
Webmin version 2.203

Using setup-repos.sh several times.
This is supposed to be the canonical way.
Of course this is a wrapper and just sucks in temporary scripts with useful detail.

APT ----> NO_PUBKEY D97A3AE911F63C51

We need a separate page or manual details on the install page.

Noble is not new, it is the current Ubuntu release. A great many people are using it. I cannot imagine this has not been tested thoroughly, so can someone please walk us through the steps to overcome this?

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Please show the full actual errors you see.

Thanks for the quick response, you would have seen similar issues in years past.

Hit:9 https://download.webmin.com/download/newkey/repository stable Release
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the pu
blic key is not available: NO_PUBKEY D97A3AE911F63C51
E: The repository 'http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

and I have webmin.list and webmin-stable.list

/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat webmi*
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-webmin-developers.gpg] https://download.webmin.com/download/newkey/repository stable contrib
deb [signed-by=/usr/chare/keyrings/webmin-archive-keyring.gpg] http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib

usr/chare is suspect - I am fixing this for a peer so it may be on us, I cannot tell. But a grep of the script source?

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I have no idea where /usr/chare/keyrings would have come from. That’s nothing we do. And, obviously wrong.

OK, I have touched it up.

webmin-archive-keyring.gpg is empty, do I need this. Or the repo?
Is “https://download.webmin.com/download/newkey/repository stable contrib” the one true repository?

I have commented out the questionable repo. All seems good.

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