Plex Debian repository not properly signed?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Getting
“GPG error: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 97203C7B3ADCA79D Plex Inc.” right now. When doing apt-get update

I’m located in the Netherlands.

Seems to be the same problem from 2 weeks ago. Plex PPA has a wrong PGP key

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having same issue, even forcing to skip checks from when they happened last year in a thread isn’t helping.

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I’ve notified the team.

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Can confirm same issue here on Ubuntu 18.04.

Looks like the same error from 19 days ago:

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Can confirm same issue here on Raspbian Stretch (RasberryPi 3):

uname:
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

/etc/os-release:
PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“9”
VERSION=“9 (stretch)”
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian

‘sudo apt update’ output:
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 97203C7B3ADCA79D Plex Inc.
W: Failed to fetch https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb/dists/public/Release.gpg The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 97203C7B3ADCA79D Plex Inc.
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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Can confirm same issue here in Debian 9 (stretch)

/etc/os-release:
PRETTY_NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
NAME=“Debian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=“9”
VERSION=“9 (stretch)”
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=debian

‘sudo apt update’ output:
W: GPG-Fehler: https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public Release: Die folgenden Signaturen waren ungültig: BADSIG 97203C7B3ADCA79D Plex Inc.
E: The repository ‘https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public Release’ is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

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Confirmed with the same error on Plex for 18.04.3 after apt update.

Any further update on this?

Edit: adding link from duplicate/same issue for others trying to get assistance:

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Closing this thread (a duplicate) in favor of: