It's a digital signature (GNU Privacy Guard). Typically to allow you to
verify that the stuff you install is what it says that it is.
However, you are not likely to get more informative answers than that in this
forum. Possible better is the R-SIG-debian lists or forums specifically for AWS.
(& it is not like googling for "GPG AWS" draws a complete blank.)
-pd
> On 28 Aug 2018, at 13:26 , akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> dear members,
> I am trying to install R in ubuntu AWS
instance....
>
> While getting help from google, I came across something called GPG key. How
to get the GPG key for an AWS ubuntu instance? More over, what is a GPG key?
>
> Any general help on installing R in ubuntu AWS instance?
>
> very many thanks for your time and effort...
> yours sincerely,
> AKSHAY M KULKARNI
>
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