Are you using Chrome in Fedora? You might have noticed messages about a missing public key and you may have encountered problems with updating the application. That’s because Google fails to provide the public key for the Chrome RPM package. It’s become a serious problem in Fedora 22 where it aborts the update process completely and the package can’t be updated. The most convenient solution for users would be importing they key while installing the package, but some argue that an RPM should never automatically import keys.

Another solution is to simply add the following line to the repo file that the installation creates:

gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

And you’ll be asked to confirm the key import during the next updating. This solution is a one-liner. It was reported to Google 10 months ago and the problem has not been fixed yet. This a bright example of problems with using proprietary software. You’re completely dependent on the vendor and on their will to solve your problems. Fedora developers are sometimes accused of not caring about how proprietary software runs on Fedora. At least here in the desktop team, we do care because we care about the experience our users have using Fedora. But in most cases including this one, we just can’t do anything. I can only advise you to import the key manually to get rid of the problems:

sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub