Re: gpg not working with kmail
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:04:29AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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...
Well... "It works" and "It is properly configured" is different thing.
Installig as such is something you should avoid.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-diverse
Osamu
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