Fix error `gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure` on Ubuntu
Aug 30, 2022
To fix this error:
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failure
In your command replace hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
with keyserver.ubuntu.com
.
For example:
gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
# Output: gpg: keyserver receive failed: Server indicated a failuregpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
# Output is fine