weird error gpg

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Jim McNamara!

> I took the bottom of the sha256sum
> file where it was ascii armor and pasted it into notepad and saved it. 

Thus destroyed the very possiblity of checking your setup.
Do not touch the signature file. Save it literal.

> I don't know why it isn't verifying.

You did that.

> I named that file fedora.asc. Here is what the original file looks like. 

Original. The key word.


> This is what i copied and pasted into notepad and called fedora.asc (see below):

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

It is a signature of the file itself. It is useless without the entire file.
Wondering who told you to do that.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, June 24, 2022 22:25:03

Sorry for my terrible english...