Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

I wasn't exactly methodical in my approach to resolve the issue but I "think" what resolved my issue preventing me from generating keys was following Stephan's suggestion of adding to .bashrc, which I had done and was still getting the issue but tonight I added the lines to .bashrc of root. Or it

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Peter Lebbing: > On 23/11/16 11:14, Stephan Beck wrote: >> [...] and properly symlink >> /usr/bin/pinentry to the pinentry-curses you actually would like to use >> if you are using text-mode only, I don't know why it should not work. > [...]So by installing the Debian pinentry-curses > package,

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On 23/11/16 07:44, David Adamson wrote: > Werner was GTK+-2.0 a potential option for an appropriate development > package for the GUI platform? (I'm not Werner :) Yes, GTK+-2 is one of the pinentries. It's the one I use, on my XFCE Debian jessie. > gpg: lookup_hashtable failed: Unknown system

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On 23/11/16 11:14, Stephan Beck wrote: > [...] and properly symlink > /usr/bin/pinentry to the pinentry-curses you actually would like to use > if you are using text-mode only, I don't know why it should not work. Good one, the symlink. It makes me wonder: is the agent looking in the right place

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Hi, David Adamson: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: >> Ah, I forgot one thing: you have to add the following to your ~/.bashrc >> file: >> GPG_TTY=$(tty) >> export GPG_TTY >> >> Does it work now? >> >> HTH >> >> Stephan > > Stephan I updated the .bashrc

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > >> configure: error: No pinentry enabled. > > You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI > platform. > > > Salam-Shalom, > >Werner > > -- > Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > Ah, I forgot one thing: you have to add the following to your ~/.bashrc > file: > GPG_TTY=$(tty) > export GPG_TTY > > Does it work now? > > HTH > > Stephan Stephan I updated the .bashrc file in my home directory, still got

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Hi, David Adamson: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> David Adamson: >> >> If you only want to use the command line (i.e. text mode) and do not >> need a GUI, you'll probably need the pinentry-curses package. Install it >> by typing: sudo

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: > Hi, > > David Adamson: > > If you only want to use the command line (i.e. text mode) and do not > need a GUI, you'll probably need the pinentry-curses package. Install it > by typing: sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Hi, David Adamson: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > >>> configure: error: No pinentry enabled. >> >> You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI >> platform. > > I looked for a GUI platform but had no idea what it's called where to

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Werner Koch wrote: >> configure: error: No pinentry enabled. > > You need to install the appropriate development package for the GUI > platform. I looked for a GUI platform but had no idea what it's called where to find it and why I need a GUI if

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:51, davidadamson...@gmail.com said: > *** The config script /usr/local/bin/gpg-error-config was > *** built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and thus may not match the > *** used host x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. This warning is a bit unfortunate but it is harmless. Both platform

Re: configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Thanks Krzysztof. I did apt-get install pinentry-qt4 although it was an older (0.8.3-2) version than what is on gnupg . org. It installed without any errors but when I run gpg2 --gen-key I'm still getting: We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action

configure warnings and errors upon ./configure for Pinentry v0.9.7

Hello, I'm running a debian Jessie v8 kernel release 3.16.0-4-amd64 on my personal laptop. It came pre-installed with GnuPG 1.4.18. I went to generate keys for myself by typing: gpg2 --gen-key But then during the process got this error: gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry Key generation