Re: gpg not working with kmail
On Sat May 24 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I do not understand your confidence. What do you mean "works". Just
> because it did not fail, it does not mean it worked right.
that is a distinct possibility.
>
> When you --prefix=/usr/bin , you already over wrote into non /usr/local
> lcation which is system file location. Just do not do this.
there was no /usr/bin/gpg, so I didn't overwrite anything. I did a:
ls /usr/bin/gpg* /usr/local/bin/gpg*
and compared. there was nothing in /usr/bin
>
> I am not user of checkinstall and so I may be wrong on minor details on
> its use but overwriting system file like you did is sure call for
> trouble.
nothing to overwrite.
>
> Checkinstall does not protect system from such brutal act. Checkinstall
> is designed to install everything under one directory in /usr/local (or
> possibly under /opt) and remove them cleanly later.
when I did the ./configure & checkinstall for gnupg 1.4.9 with the defaults,
kmail complained that /usr/bin/gpg was not installed correctly or was
missing.
when I did the ./configure --prefic=/usr/bin
kmail no longer complains and I can now sign messages in kmail. Explain to me
why my logic is faulty and what I did was wrong. I did not overwrite any
files, I was not able to run apt-get install gnupg ( not found).
>
> With checkinstall, I expects --prefix=/usr/local/gnupg or
> --prefix=/opt/gnupg to be used. (Please read the manual.)
I wasn't looking for /usr/local/gnupg I was looking for a package that would
install /usr/bin/gpg . Lets step back here a minute and look at what we have.
I am a stupid user, trying to get away from windows. I installed Debian, use
kmail, and I want to sign messages using gpg/pgp/gnupg, whatever the H&LL
will work. This is not an intuitive process, trying synaptic was futile, and
I went to the only place that seemed logical, source packages. You are giving
me grief because i don't understand why kmail is complaining , and I found a
way to make it work. So far no one else has given me a better solution that
has worked. I don't want to read a bunch of manuals, I want to select a
package from Synaptic, install it, and have it work. apt-get install gnupg
says there is no package., so I go to source. Should I have come here first
and asked why I couldn't find a package?
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Paul Cartwright
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