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The GNU Privacy Guard 2
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Version 1.9.x
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GnuPG 1.9 is the future version of GnuPG; it is based on some gnupg-1.3
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code and the previous newpg package. It will eventually lead to a
GnuPG 2.0 release.
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You should use this GnuPG version if you want to use the gpg-agent or
gpgsm (the S/MIME variant of gpg). Note that the gpg-agent is also
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helpful when using the standard gpg versions (1.4.x) the old 1.2.x).
There are no problems installing 1.4 and 1.9 alongside; in fact we
suggest to do this.
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BUILD INSTRUCTIONS
==================
GnuPG 1.9 depends on the following packages:
libgpg-error (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/)
libgcrypt (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/)
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libksba (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/)
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libassuan (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/)
You also need the pinentry package for most function of GnuPG; however
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it is not a build requirement. pinentry is available at
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/pinentry/ .
You should get the latest versions of course, the GnuPG configure
script complains if a version is not sufficient.
After building and installing the above packages in the order as given
above, you may now continue with GnuPG installation (you may also just
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try to build GnuPG to see whether your already installed versions are
sufficient).
As with all packages, you just have to do
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./configure
make
make install
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(Before doing install you might need to become root.)
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If everything succeeds, you have a working GnuPG with support for
S/MIME and smartcards. Note that there is no binary gpg but a gpg2 so
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that this package won't conflict with a GnuPG 1.4 installation. gpg2
behaves just like gpg.
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In case of problem please ask on gnupg-users@gnupg.org for advise. Note
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that this release is only expected to build on GNU and *BSD systems.
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DOCUMENTATION
==================
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The complete documentation is in the texinfo manual named
`gnupg.info'. Run "info gnupg" to read it. If you want a a printable
copy of the manual, change to the "doc" directory and enter "make
gnupg.pdf". For a HTML version enter "make gnupg.html" and point your
browser to gnupg.html/index.html. Standard man pages for all
components are provided as well.
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