On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > I've a strange problem with GnuPG: I can install it correctly without any > errors, but when i run gpg, i get the following error: > gpg: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: error loading > extension: /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory > gpg: selected cipher algorithm is invalid > gpg: selected digest algorithm is invalid On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:28:06PM +0200, Frederik wrote: > > In reply to myself: everything seems to be OK now. I purged everything > relating to gnupg, gpg-rsa and gpg-idea, deleted every remaining > configuration/documentation/... and reinstalled gnupg. > This worked. I tend not to use rsa in gpg, but i did notice the same "error loading extension" message you had above. Since gpg can now have RSA built in without being non-free, the new packages have it that way. However, the config files in user's home directories are not changed (nor should they be), so they will still likely have a line "load-extension rsa" in ~/.gnupg/options. Since there is no extension to be loaded anymore, it fails, and then dies when you try something requiring rsa. This is all speculation (can anyone confirm?), but chances are you only needed to remove that one line from ~/.gnupg/options -- finger for GPG public key.
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