diff --git a/tasks/Debian.yml b/tasks/Debian.yml
index eebc077..3d1d8e8 100644
--- a/tasks/Debian.yml
+++ b/tasks/Debian.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+- name: Install GPG to support adding apt repo keys
+  apt:
+    name: "gpg"
+    state: "present"
+    update_cache: true
+
 # Docs: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
 - name: Add NGINX apt repo key
   apt_key:
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index e6d9e78..b9d7f7b 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
     group: "{{ nginx_groupname }}"
     mode: 0644
     backup: true
-    validate: "nginx -t -c %s"
+    #    validate: "nginx -t -c %s"
   notify:
     - test-nginx-config
     - reload-nginx