Thank you everyone, for your warm welcome and timely response. I downloaded
the key from the download site and proceeded to verify it. But the public
key was required so I ran the command to retrieve it:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5

which alas again returned the error:

keyserver timed out

keyserver recieve failed.

I visited https://pgp.mit.edu/ to search the string
3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 ( I guessed this must be the
string needed to be searched to extract the key)
 but that search returned "no such key found." I decided to proceed
with the installations then, and wrote the command as root
 (by  sudo -i ), to unpack the tarball in tmp folder:
/# cd /tmp
/# tar -xf guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz

And this is what it returned:
tar: guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file
or directory

I tried the same after saving the
guix-binary-0.9.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz in tmp folder but again the some
result. I'm trying googling and

finding solution to this for now. Any help is most welcomed.


On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 10:53 AM Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2018-10-05, Björn Höfling wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:28:08 +0200
> > Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> namrata malkani <nmalkani13@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
> >> 5., P 16:23):
> ...
> >> > But when I tried to download the .sig file, using the command
> >> >
> >> > wget
> >> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
> >> > on my terminal, it returned an error:
> >> >
> >> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org
> >> > (alpha.gnu.org)|2001:4830:134:3::c|:21... failed: Network is
> >> > unreachable.
> >
> > I checked the download-page and the links there are to the same server
> > (alpha.gnu.org). Because you see a "Network unreachable" instead of a
> > "file not found", I suppose your network does not permit
> > FTP-connections (i.e. port 21 being blocked).
>
> Wild guess here, but might also be an issue in ipv6 routes, you could
> try to force ipv4 with:
>
>   wget -4
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.15.0.system.tar.xz.sig
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant
>