Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-12 Thread Murphy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Success! I finally got a consistent install of beta version gnupg-2.1.0 on a fresh version of Ubuntu 14.04 inside VirtualBox. These steps work: 1. Download, verify and unpack npth, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, libksba, libassuan. 2. Install each in

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 05:15, mac3...@gmail.com said: 3. sudo mv /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon.bak (this is a hack to prevent gnome from hijacking gnupg) You should start gnome-keyring-daemon with --components=pkcs11,secrets In case you do not use GnuPG ssh

gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Murphy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For some of us relatively new Ubuntu Linux users installing the latest gnupg can be a challenge. I usually end up putting Ubuntu into some strange state before everything works. I propose a method to help us newbies. Successful installation steps

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 06:56, mac3...@gmail.com said: close to succeeding. npth requires LDAP that requires something called BerkelyDB that seems to be satisfied by sudo apt-get install npth has no dependencies except for the system's native thread library (i.e pthread). Shalom-Salam,

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
For some of us relatively new Ubuntu Linux users installing the latest gnupg can be a challenge. The latest GnuPG is in the Ubuntu repositories, last I checked. Ubuntu's normally pretty good about keeping current. With respect to GnuPG 2.1, it's still in progress and hasn't yet been released.

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/08/14 21:05, Robert J. Hansen wrote: For some of us relatively new Ubuntu Linux users installing the latest gnupg can be a challenge. The latest GnuPG is in the Ubuntu repositories, last I checked. Ubuntu's normally pretty good about keeping current. I'm also a new Ubuntu user

Re: gnupg-2.1 Install

2014-08-11 Thread Murphy
follows the test: detachm.test. It also seems to hang on --gen-key once the proposed password is accepted. But I am hot on the trail. Unless someone beats me in revealing a successful gnupg 2.1 install on a new Ubuntu 14.04 environment I will keep trying. Getting there, Sandy -BEGIN PGP