Using apt-keys

[david]

At 05:35 PM 1/8/2021, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:58 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote:
> >
> > Folks
> >
> > I tried installing Virtualbox in 20.04, and recent exchanges on the
> > mailing list advised me to use the Oracle repository rather than the
> > one built into the Ubuntu distribution.  Following one of the
> > installation guides, I was asked to add a key to apt's keyring using
> > apt-key.  This led me to a deprecated warning, and further research
> > led me to a multi-step incomprehensible replacement for the one (or
> > two, depending how you count) replacement for sequences like
> >
> > sudo apt-key list
> >
> > check to see if the Oracle key is already there. and if not, issue:
> >
> > wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O-
> > | sudo apt-key add -
> >
> >
> > I would hope that the replacement to 'apt-key' is easy.  I can't
> > believe that developers would replace a one-line commands with
> > something complex.  Please advise.
> >
>Unless you have a need to automate this in an installation, just go to
>their website manually and download the files, then install them
>manually.
>
>You should probably use dpkg to install the .deb file.
>
>I wouldn't use apt for this unless, as I said, there's a compelling
>reason to do so.  The manual approach is simple and straightforward.
>
>Mark
>
>--
>ubuntu-us


Mark:
Yes, I'm trying to automate the process.  And apt-key becomes 
deprecated in future releases, so I'm sort of stuck.  Got any ideas?

David