I was able to figure this out. The solution:

1) Go to my home machine (which has the trinity archive keyserver ports open) and from root issue

apt-key export >trinity.key

2) copy (actually scp) the trinity.key to the work machine which has the keyserver ports closed.

3) as root on the work machine issue

apt-get add trinity.key

4) problem solved.

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 12:29 -0400, James D Freels wrote:

Recall below the method for obtaining the GPG signing key for the trinity project.

2. Add the GPG signing key:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net --recv-keys 2B8638D0

At home, I have no problem at all doing this through my ISP (comcast).

However, at work, the port used for obtaining the key is blocked so I cannot add the key to my work data base. I had the same problem with ubuntu keys and had to gain special permissions just to get the key.

I was hoping there may be a simpler way to just copy the key over, and install it. Can you send instructions with it ?

Thanks

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James D. Freels
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