[kdepim-users] pgp not working

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat May 24 10:10:31 BST 2008


On Saturday 24 May 2008 05:38:08 Pastor JW wrote:
> On Friday 23 May 2008 04:13:26 pm Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > On Fri May 23 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Have you got pinentry-qt?
> >
> > I didn't but I do now. still no joy..
> > when  I try a rescan it always says it can't find /usr/bin/gpg
> > would making a link from /usr/local/bingpg /usr/bin/gpg help?
>
> It CAN work but will never work by using the available "how to's".  I had
> someone take me through the install once and it worked all the way up until
> I updated Mandriva 2007 to 2008!  Pointless to go through the whole
> procedure again as it is really not useful and you have to start all over
> everytime you update your system.  Each time you reinstall it it lacks a
> piece or two to be usefull and you'll chase it for a couple months, missing
> out on the things you really ought to have been doing.   Can sign a
> message?  Sure but I have to do my password each time so it is still broken
> isn't it?  I will in fact sign this one but I disabled the "auto signing"
> as it can't do it.

That sounds as though you don't have gpg-agent running.  I use it on 2008.0 
with no problems whatsoever.

Anne
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