The GNU Privacy Guard 2 ========================= Version 1.9.x GnuPG 1.9 is the future version of GnuPG; it is based on some gnupg-1.3 code and the previous newpg package. It will eventually lead to a GnuPG 2.0 release. 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 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. 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/) libksba (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/) libassuan (ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libassuan/) You also need the pinentry package for most function of GnuPG; however 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 try to build GnuPG to see whether your already installed versions are sufficient). As with all packages, you just have to do ./configure make make install (Before doing install you might need to become root.) 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 that this package won't conflict with a GnuPG 1.4 installation. gpg2 behaves just like gpg. In case of problem please ask on gnupg-users@gnupg.org for advise. Note that this release is only expected to build on GNU and *BSD systems. DOCUMENTATION ================== 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.