Problem with kicad 5.1.2 ppa under Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa

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I’m trying to install Kicad 5.1.2, following the instruction:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5.1

unfortunately this results in the following message:
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.2g0AQKIlAZ/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5F1E4C625E24069D9072394F83FBAD2D910F124E
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data

Could it be there is something changed which I don’t know of?

kind regards,
Hugo

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You might try apt-get update and apt-get upgrade first. The key looks right and exists[1], so I’m betting on configuration issue.

[1] http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=0x5F1E4C625E24069D9072394F83FBAD2D910F124E&op=vindex

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You might try apt-get update and apt-get upgrade first. The key looks right and exists[1], so I’m betting on configuration issue.

[1] http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=0x5F1E4C625E24069D9072394F83FBAD2D910F124E&op=vindex

I tried apt update && apt upgrade but it doesn’t help.
I doubt it is a configuration error, as I don’t have any trouble importing other ppa’s. I tried it both on
Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya and Mint 19.1 Tessa. It does not work, neither from the command line nor via
the software manager.
This is the message I get from “Software Sources” when I try to add the ppa:

W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/kicad-5.1/ubuntu bionic
InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the
public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 83FBAD2D910F124E, E:The
repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/kicad-5.1/ubuntu bionic
InRelease’ is not signed.

Is there a way to add the key manually by first copying it in a file and then importing that?

kind regards,
Hugo

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Meanwhile I found a workaround:
Make a file kicadkey.pgp with the content between (and including) begin pgp and end pgp from the following webpage:
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x83FBAD2D910F124E
Import the key as follows:
sudo apt-key add kicadkey.pgp
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-suggests kicad
sudo apt install kicad-doc-en

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Please don’t do that! This is nothing more than wrong. You will get installed tons of stuff you don’t need or even want. If one ore more dependencies for the KiCad binaries are missed after install the kicad package that this is simply a bug in the packaging and needs to get fixed in the packaging.

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