Hi Will, A lot of people on this list are probably using GnuPG (gpg), which is a GNU replacement for PGP. As long as you have a non-us line in your apt cources.list do an apt-get install gnupg. The pgp you have installed is quite old, and certainly doesn't support gpg and the newer pgp's. If you really want to use PGP (it has been recently revealed there is a potentially nasty back-door in some versions), use pgp5i, which is a newer version and supports additional encryption algorythms. I'm not certain that pgp5 supports the gnupg-signed messages, but gnupg has modules which can be used which support idea and rsa, which are used in pgp. I use gnupg myself with mutt, and I haven't come accross many signed messages which I couldn't check. HTH, damon Quoth Will Trillich, > after i got tired of seeing > /usr/bin/pgp: Command not found > in mutt for months on end, i did > apt-get install pgp-us > and went back into mutt to read my email. > > now i see > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Sep 13 22:56:26 2000) --] > > ^GUnsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this file. > > For a usage summary, type: pgp -h > For more detailed help, consult the PGP User's Guide. > [-- End of PGP output --] > > [-- The following data is PGP/MIME signed --] > <yada yada message appears here...> > > (that's "^"carat "G", by the way) > > % pgp -v > Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses. > > i also tried > apt-get install pgp-i > with no better results. > > what am i missing? (you'd never know it, but i just installed it > today, and none of the documentation 'speaks' to me yet. can you > tell?) > > -- > will@serensoft.com http://www.dontUthink.com/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everyone dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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