Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016 at 16:24, Julien Cubizolles wrote: >> there must be something wrong with my setup: keychain complains: >> >> * Adding 1 gpg key(s): 370D5DFF >> * Error: Problem adding (is pinentry installed?); giving up > > Which version(s) of pinentry do you have installed?
I have pinentry-gnome3, pinentry-curses, pinentry-tty, and I try with all 3 of them, setup with update-alternatives. The error remains the same. > And is this error from your .profile (i.e. console login) yes (from .bash_profile actually) > or is it when you try manually? also, running: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- keychain --eval --agents ssh,gpg id_rsa MYGPGKEY --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- in a non login shell. Regards, Julien.