Re: gpg not working with kmail
On Sat May 24 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > 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.
I fixed it by reconfiguring gnupg 1.4.9 with ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin
I'm not sure what happened when, but it USED to work...
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Paul Cartwright
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