[CentOS] Gpg-agent will not start

Tue Feb 17 20:44:18 UTC 2009
Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov>

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.

Phil