Can't find the archive-keyring on amazon instance

Question

Im relatively new to this so please bear with me ..

Im running an amazon instance with ubuntu 11.10

and after performing

apt-get upgrade

everything with my package manager went haywire
if i try to perform any apt-get operations i get

Fetched 35.2 MB in 7s (4,399 kB/s)                                                                                                                                
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up apt (0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.6) ...
ERROR: Can't find the archive-keyring
Is the ubuntu-keyring package installed?
dpkg: error processing apt (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

and after looking around and trying a bunch of stuff which includes :
- performing a clean and update or clean and upgrade
- taking a new sources.list altogether
- adding the keyring again
- and a whole bunch of other completely random stuff in the desperate attempt of a miracle

nothing worked ..

so any help will help me find ......no, come close a solution will be greatly appreciated :)

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 00:38

The solution posted at the end of this thread worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2129550

Basically find another clean ubuntu machine and copy the /usr/share/keyrings/* to ur current /usr/share/keyrings directory. I had no files in this directory when I was getting the error. Once I copied the files from another ubuntu install, apt-get started working again.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 10:55

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Try

 sudo apt-get clean

 sudo apt-get -f install ubuntu-keyring

answered Feb 20 '13 at 10:55

Abhishek Anand Amralkar

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tried .. did not work .. same thing for all apt-get operation .. – user160870 Feb 20 '13 at 10:56
have you tried this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades – Abhishek Anand Amralkar Feb 20 '13 at 11:01
There are a whole bunch of other dependencies so i would not like to perform any operations which involves something that can upset the setup seeing that i have already screwed something up :D – user160870 Feb 20 '13 at 11:04
try this apt-get -f install archive-keyring – Abhishek Anand Amralkar Feb 20 '13 at 11:34
nope .. still the same issue – user160870 Feb 20 '13 at 11:47
I kind of have added a hot fix for this temporarily , in the dpkg/apt.postint i have commented the like apt-key update as this was causing the issue .. Its not the right fix but for now i think ill keep it :) – user160870 Feb 20 '13 at 11:50

Can't find the archive-keyring on amazon instance

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