[CentOS] Gpg-agent will not start

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 18 13:59:25 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 17 February 2009 20:44, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:25:07 Steve Huff wrote:
> >> On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> What am I missing?
> >>
> >> ask yum:
> >>
> >> [shuff at srdce ~]$ yum provides /usr/bin/gpg-agent
> >> ...
> >> gnupg2.i386 : Utility for secure communication and data storage
> >
> > yum install gnupg2
> > Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> >  * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com
> >  * kbs-CentOS-Extras: centos.karan.org
> >  * rpmforge: www.mirrorservice.org
> >  * base: mirrors.dedipower.com
> >  * updates: mirrors.dedipower.com
> >  * addons: mirrors.dedipower.com
> >  * extras: mirrors.dedipower.com
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Parsing package install arguments
> > No package gnupg2 available.
> > Nothing to do
>
> As Rex Dieter said earlier - "EPEL"...
>
> [root at wx1 ~]# yum info gnupg2
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading "changelog" plugin
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   * epel: mirror.umoss.org
>   * rpmforge: rh-mirror.linux.iastate.edu
>   * extras: CentOS
>   * local: CentOS
>   * updates: CentOS
>   * base: CentOS
>   * centosplus: CentOS
>   * addons: CentOS
> Excluding Packages from Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - dag
> Finished
> Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Plus
> Finished
> 7252 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Available Packages
> Name   : gnupg2
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 2.0.8
> Release: 1.el5
> Size   : 2.4 M
> Repo   : epel
> Summary: Utility for secure communication and data storage
> Description:
> GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage.  It can
> be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.  It includes
> an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed
> OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME
> standard as described by several RFCs.
>
> GnuPG 2.0 is the stable version of GnuPG integrating support for
> OpenPGP and S/MIME.  It does not conflict with an installed 1.x
> OpenPGP-only version.
>
> GnuPG 2.0 is a newer version of GnuPG with additional support for
> S/MIME.  It has a different design philosophy that splits
> functionality up into several modules.  Both versions may be installed
> simultaneously without any conflict (gpg is called gpg2 in GnuPG 2).
> In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG 1.x is able to make use of the
> gpg-agent as included in GnuPG 2 and allows for seamless passphrase
> caching.  The advantage of GnupG 1.x is its smaller size and no
> dependency on other modules at run and build time.
>
Thanks, Phil and Rex.  Everything's absolutely fine, now.  That just leaves 
the terrible konqueror problem, and no-one seems to have any ideas on 
that. :-(

Anne



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