Re: gpg not working with kmail
Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat May 24 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>
>>> Should I have come here first
>>> and asked why I couldn't find a package
>>>
>> In this particular case, yes, because this package should be available.
>> As a matter of fact, it should already be installed, because it is
>> required by debian-archive-keyring, which in turn is required by apt,
>> which is an essential package. Also, even if for some reason you cannot
>> find the package in your system, or in the repositories you are using,
>> gnupg is included in Debian, as can be seen by consulting
>> http://packages.debian.org/gnupg .
>>
>> So, in that case, if gnupg could not be found, then one should
>> investigate why it wasn't were it should be.
>>
>
> ok, why couldn't I find it?# cat sources.list
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main
>
> deb-src http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free +
>
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
Well, what does it say if you run apt-get update, then apt-get install
gnupg? Note also errors or anything else in the first command.
What about apt-cache policy gnupg?
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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