Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent

[VanL]

> On 22 Jun 2019, at 17:26, Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I installed the gnu-elpa-keyring-update package as you suggested
> (albeit manually, with "M-x package-install-file", since the
> instructions listed on the project page didn't work (it seems they're
> for a different version of gpg than what I have). The package didn't
> seem to have much documentation, so I wasn't sure if I needed to do
> anything after installing it. In any case, just running "M-x
> package-refresh-contents" after installing it showed the same problem.

May be you need to locate your gpg program and put it in .emacs like

(setq epg-gpg-program "/usr/local/bin/gpg2")

May be you need to update your gpg.

It would be neat to have a thing that checklisted all your certificate handling 
components are working correctly.

My be you could point eww to the https address for the packages and see if your 
emacs can get thru to there.