On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 18:37, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> Okay, with this question I'm endeavoring to put the "newbie" back into
> the list where it belongs :-) ... big time.
>
> Here's the deal. I made my GPG key, no problem. I've successfully
> added the key of a friend, no problem. I've got Evolution set up now to
> encrypt/decrypt and sign/verify, no problem. Works like a charm ...
> from the command line, which makes my skin crawl. LOL.
>
> So, I decided I wanted a frontend for GPG, being a GUI kinda guy, so I
> installed KGPG 1.0 from .tar via the ./configure make blah, blah, blah
> route. Apparently, again, no problem.
>
> Here's where the "newbie" comes in. WHERE THE HECK IS IT? :-)
>
> I guess I'm used to C:\Program Files still, but this kind of thing just
> throws me. I'm expecting to see KGPG somewhere in my menus and/or
> running in the tray, but I'm not.
That's really the difference between compiling from source using
configure/make and installing an RPM. The people who build the RPMs add
the nice bits like setting up desktop menu items.
So if you've installed via configure/make, you will need to add the
entries to the menus yourself.
The equivalent of "C:\Program Files" in Linux (and generally in unix)
is:
/usr/bin (for "standard" stuff)
and /usr/local/bin (for "addons" stuff).
These directories are normally on the "search path" for every user, so
if you start one of those dreaded command-lines, and type:
which kgpg
then (if you're lucky) it will respond:
/usr/local/bin/kgpg
or something like that.
You can then just add it using the menudrake program
("configuration|other|menudrake" on mdk9.2), or right-click on the gnome
panel and choose "add launcher" for a quick-launch icon. Or create a
desktop icon for it. I presume KDE has equivalents.
If the program it installed isn't called "kgpg", then at the
command-line, try typing "kg" then press the tab key. The bash shell
will display all the available commands whose names start with "kg".
Hopefully one looks familiar.
Of course if you had watched the output of the "make install" program,
that would have told you what it was installing and where :-).
Generally, installing from RPMs makes this process all a bit easier; of
course you can't get the latest and greatest releases as soon as they
are available, though!
I hope this helps,
Regards,
Simon
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