Re: Kmail & GPG: need help in setting up
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:02 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Friday February 11 2005 06:20, Don wrote:
> > I was not able to install the "OpenPGP part of Ägypten II" per the howto
> > page...
> > seems libksba was missing another error file or something (don't have the
> > name handy) and aborted the make. So that is one problem I need to
> > resolve. It does not compile according to the howto page instructions.
> > Ver. 0.9.9 was obtained from the site listed on the howto page. Didn't
> > need to do this install before when I was using earlier KDE and kmail --
> > is it needed now?
>
> You don't really need to compile anything. There are perfectly good
> packages, for which the apt.sources line is:
>
> deb http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf
>
> Those have been waiting for inclusion in the official debian releases for
> far over a year by now.
>
> Installing gnupg2 and getting gpg-agent to run (which is a terrible hack,
> but should be documented in every self-respecting HOWTO on the topic)
> should be enough to get "good" GPG support in KMail. I also posted a script
> for use in an X session some time back, just search the archives.
>
> If you ask me, the gpg-agent solution still sucks and blows, but there you
> go. HTH.
Thanks Nicos for the tips. I now have gpg rather "limping" along -- at least
it works somewhat. I found I could only get it to work if I went back to the
"Inline OpenPGP (deprecated)" mode. I installed gnupg2, gpgsm, and your
script, but still do not find gpg-agent. I've spent hours on this problem
and was almost ready to find another email application until I went to the
deprecated mode. Will leave well enough alone as I mainly use encryption in
email with one or two correspondents. I hope that kde/kmail gets their act
together soon (but I am not ungrateful for the otherwise fine work they have
done!).
Don
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