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GPG error while updating - Metasploit 

# curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-omnibus/master/config/templates/metasploit-framework-wrappers/msfupdate.erb > msfinstall &&   chmod 755 msfinstall &&   ./msfinstall

% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100  5495  100  5495    0     0  67839      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 67839

Switching to root user to update the package

Adding metasploit-framework to your repository list..gpg: can't connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed
Updating package cache..W: GPG error: http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt lucid InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY CDFB5FA52007B954
E: The repository 'http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt lucid InRelease' is not signed.
OK
Checking for and installing update..
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package metasploit-framework
David Buck
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If you are seeing this on Ubuntu running on WSL 2.0 (or maybe even if you aren't) remove the gpg package and install the gnupg1 package instead.

sudo apt remove gpg
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y gnupg1

See more detail at

gpg: can't connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed

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