Re: gpg not working with kmail
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:03:58AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat May 24 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > I recompiled using ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin
> >
> > Why, for $DEITY's sake, why??????? If you're gonna build your own
> > packages, use Slackware.
>
> been so long now, either I couildn't find the magic apt-get install
> PACKAGE_NAME, then went to gnupg.org and downloaded 1.4.9, or... I really
> don't remember. The point is, once it was installed, kmail stopped working.
> Then it was impossible to uninstall gnupg without trashing my entire
> installation... I don't LIKE builidng packages on my own, I HATE it.
> If it had been fairly obvious from the synaptic package manager how to do it,
> I would have done it that way.
I think you do not need to uninstall gnupg installed by Debian.
What you need is to remove files under /usr/local.
Usually, $PATH is
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/sbin:/sbin
this means one on /usr/local/bin wins over /usr/bin or /bin.
# make uninstall
may be what you need.
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