Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-16 Thread Philip Jackson
I passed an interesting Sunday afternoon : removed gnupg2.0.26 and attempted to replace it with gnupg-2.1.2. The experience was not entirely successful. I got the updated libraries installed using configure/make/checkinstall. I used checkinstall because various howto articles on ubuntu's wiki

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-13 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2015-02-11 16:35:27 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: If I do gpg2 --version, it comes back clearly with 2.0.26. and enigmail clearly indicates that it has found the gpg2 that I built. So, moving on, if I do : apt-get -t experimental install gnupg2 will I get 2.1.1 installed together

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-12 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, Philip, Am 11.02.2015 um 22:35 schrieb Philip Jackson: On 11/02/15 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: [snip] When I try your way from the command line, I get : $ apt-cache policy gnupg2

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-12 Thread Philip Jackson
Hi Stephan, On 12/02/15 22:46, Stephan Beck wrote: Hi, Philip, Am 11.02.2015 um 22:35 schrieb Philip Jackson: On 11/02/15 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: [snip] In synaptic: have you set

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: In Debian, the experimental repo has gpg 2.1 with all dependencies. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental Thank you for that suggestion, Brian. I looked into the link you provided and decided that to see the precise name of

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/02/15 16:20, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I find that distro packages (for Ubuntu) lag well behind what is available and I do appreciate that there is a trade-off between proven reliability and up-to-dateness and also that distros rely on maintainers who may well be volunteers... If your

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Brian Minton
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Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I find that distro packages (for Ubuntu) lag well behind what is available and I do appreciate that there is a trade-off between proven reliability and up-to-dateness and also that distros rely on maintainers who may well be volunteers... If your goal is to enjoy tinkering with technology, by

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 11/02/15 21:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: In Debian, the experimental repo has gpg 2.1 with all dependencies. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental snip...

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2015-02-11 14:02:49 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: On 11/02/15 14:59, Brian Minton wrote: In Debian, the experimental repo has gpg 2.1 with all dependencies. Follow the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental Thank you for that suggestion, Brian. I looked into the

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
A priori, this doesn't seem very transparent but I suppose there must be a way to determine if 2.0.22 is original or augmented ? Yep, but as I'm not much of an Ubuntu guy I'll let one of them give you specific instructions -- I just know Ubuntu, like Debian (which it's built on), is very good

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-11 Thread Philip Jackson
On 10/02/15 23:53, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: The questions you're asking are very much the sort of thing that distributions are designed to address. What distro are you using? what version? 2.1.1 has been packaged for some distros already (as have some of these dependencies), and you

moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-10 Thread Philip Jackson
I've been a linux user for less than a year and the only configure/make/install I've done is for 2.0.26 and its dependencies (when I couldn't get the distro supplied package 2.0.22 to work). Now when I look at the dependencies for gnupg 2.1.1, I see that I need to upgrade libassuan to 2.2.0,

Re: moving up from 2.0.26 to 2.1.1

2015-02-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Tue 2015-02-10 14:09:59 -0500, Philip Jackson wrote: I've been a linux user for less than a year and the only configure/make/install I've done is for 2.0.26 and its dependencies (when I couldn't get the distro supplied package 2.0.22 to work). Now when I look at the dependencies for